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

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

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.

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.

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

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new study says that the Sun’s activity actually reversed course around 2008. This ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

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