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 ...

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

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

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

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

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

A study conducted in South America and published in the journal Communications Medicine found a correlation between solar ...

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 ...

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