A solar storm on the scale of the 1859 Carrington Event would knock out large sections of the U.S. power grid for weeks or ...

The Space Weather Prediction Center warned on July 23, 2026, that a G2 moderate geomagnetic storm could push aurora ...

A new NASA-led study suggests future extreme solar storms could be stronger than previously thought, with greater risks for satellites, GPS and power grids.

A gigantic solar eruption in November 2021 defied expectations. Two spacecraft—Solar Orbiter at 0.85 AU and Wind at 0.98 AU—watched the same coronal mass ejection (CME) as it zoomed through the solar ...

For decades, researchers believed Earth's atmosphere had a ceiling on how hard it could react to the sun's most violent ...

A proposed StormWall spacecraft fleet could release gas to weaken solar storms, protecting satellites, power grids and technology, but potentially reducing auroras.

A powerful solar storm is expected to strike Earth on June 8, potentially creating dazzling auroras, disrupting communications and giving scientists a rare opportunity to study space weather.

A solar storm is a sudden explosion of particles, energy, magnetic fields and material blasted into the solar system by the sun When directed towards earth they can create a disturbance in our ...

Mars may react differently when trouble arrives from two directions at once. A solar particle storm and a planet-wide dust storm overlapped in 2018, and temperatures rose in the lower atmosphere ...

The northern lights could mean lights out for the infrastructure we rely on.