Auroras are more frequent and visible farther south right now, but the solar cycle has entered its declining phase.

Scientists have cracked a 178-year-old mystery surrounding a train delayed by a solar storm, revealing that the famous incident happened in 1848 rather than 1841. The discovery rewrites the early ...

A powerful solar eruption recorded on 8 October could trigger a moderate geomagnetic storm on 11 October, NOAA has warned. The event may brighten auroras but could also affect satellite signals, radio ...

The Earth is surrounded by an invisible barrier that was thought to prevent highly energetic electrons from reaching closer to our planet. But in 2024, Japan's Arase space probe detected these ...

A powerful solar storm would not need to destroy every device to create a major crisis. Modern society’s dependence on a few interconnected systems is what makes the threat serious.

The sun is the reason life exists on our small, blue planet. It provides solar radiation that warms the planet and ignites intricate biochemical processes like photosynthesis, producing oxygen for ...

Two large coronal holes dominating the Earth-facing side of the Sun are sending back-to-back high-speed solar wind streams toward Earth right now, with isolated G1-class (minor) geomagnetic storm ...

A severe solar storm that struck Earth in November last year caused never-before-seen GPS disruptions that may have led to "significant losses" had they occurred during the American farming season, a ...

Astronomers found evidence that solar storms and dust storms magnify heat synergistically on Mars, by as much as 90 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). Reading time 3 minutes It took seven months ...

The Carrington Event of 1859 packed a bigger punch than any other recorded geomagnetic storm. How did it cause chaos, and could history repeat itself?