Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered ...

Usually, a solar storm means that auroras will light up the sky. But more powerful storms, such as this ancient one, could ...

Space weather experts warn that a moderate-strength geomagnetic storm could hit Earth Friday or Saturday (Aug. 8 or 9) — ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

A solar storm, also known as geomagnetic storm, occurs when the solar wind - which consists of charged particles that are constantly streaming from the sun - interact with the Earth's magnetic ...

Solar storms that fling magnetism across the solar system can knock out satellites, power grids, communication and navigation ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they affect our atmosphere and satellites.

The coronal mass ejection hurled from an active sunspot launched a bit sidewise, which lowers the odds of seeing the effects ...

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has published "Solar Under Storm III," analyzing hurricane impacts on solar farms in the ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...