When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Dr. Lulu Zhao, an ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

Boffins working for Nasa are a little worried that the entire world could lose all its electricity and computers in a huge solar storm which is due. Apparently the sort of storm that is predicted ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

What new insights about the Sun has NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission revealed to the scientific community? This is what a recent media roundtable at the American ...

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This ...

Colorful auroras could dazzle skywatchers again on Monday night amid a severe geomagnetic storm and what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said was the largest solar radiation storm ...