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

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

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

Simulation in preparation for Sentinel-1D shows that satellites would be destroyed when faced with a super solar storm.

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.

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

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

A solar storm could bring the northern lights to U.S. skies tonight—see if your state is on the aurora visibility map.

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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.

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