If scientists want to better understand solar storms and the cycles that drive them, they need longitudinal data, which they ...

Three days before a solar storm arrived on May 10, 2024, they watched as a dark knot on the sun — tangled magnetic field lines spanning 124,000 miles — took aim at the planet. “That's magnets twisting ...

Solar storms are vast eruptions of energy, particles, and magnetic fields released by the Sun. A new interactive map allows ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we've ever recorded. Studying the world's oldest trees suggests we could soon be due one of these gargantuan events. The first clear sign of exceptionally ...

The Sun is sending another burst of activity towards Earth. Space-weather forecasters have issued two geomagnetic storm watches for August 27 and 28. The first is for a G1 minor storm. The second ...

Extreme solar storms could affect Earth’s technology far more than previously thought, according to a NASA-led study challenging a decades-old assumption about how our planet responds to severe space ...

New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get. Reading time 3 minutes Cataclysmic solar storms may be rare ...