From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

An astonishing celestial event has been captured on camera, revealing a solar tornado and a massive plasma eruption unfolding on the Sun’s surface at the exact same moment. Romanian space scientist ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...

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Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts ...

The Sun looks like a warm yellow sphere with a surface covered with glowing messy hair. The yellow glow extends to the edges of the image, with some regions brighter than others. Many bright yellow ...

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are central features of solar activity that significantly influence space weather. SEPs are high‐energy particles expelled ...

A coronal mass ejection could knock out power and disrupt communication on Earth Dan Falk - Science Correspondent A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2013. NASA In August of 1859, ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

'I think it is quite clear that space weather was not the cause of the dramatic power outage in Spain recently' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...