The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could affect your day-to-day life.

CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that autumn storm systems have dominated large swathes of Europe in October, driving a clear split between northern regions ...

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For a long stretch of time, scientists were under the impression that our star was slowly entering hibernation. Known as the "deep solar minimum," this period started in the 1980s and ended in 2008.