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 ...

Researchers discover hidden solar tornadoes that can disrupt Earth's systems - revealing why current space weather warnings ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

The Northern Lights may be visible in U.S. states after space weather experts at NOAA forecast a geomagnetic storm as two ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Four proposed sun-gazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object ...

Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

Space weather forecasting is decades behind Earth’s meteorology. Learn what makes auroras so unpredictable—and the real-time ...

In spectacularly good timing a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun is about to collide with an object which came from outside of the Solar System. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object ...