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

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

CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

Bright sun burns with plasma and flares in space. - Alones/Shutterstock For a long stretch of time, scientists were under the impression that our star was slowly entering hibernation. Known as the ...

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

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

"There can be quite a bit of damage to a solar system impacted by hail, or extreme weather events, like our recent cyclones," he said. "Once that damage has been done to the glass face, the electrical ...

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

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.