SOLAR-1 satellite, NOAA's replacement for DSCOVR, faces its first major operational test as a filament-eruption CME launched ...

In March 2025, NASA launched the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission in an effort to better understand solar weather. It consists of a constellation of four microsatellites ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we've ever recorded. Studying the world's oldest trees suggests we could soon be ...

A solar storm is a sudden explosion of particles, energy, magnetic fields and material blasted into the solar system by the sun When directed towards earth they can create a disturbance in our ...

Some of the world’s oldest trees are revealing a surprising warning about the sun: our star is capable of producing solar ...

The northern lights could mean lights out for the infrastructure we rely on.

Physicists led by the University of Iowa have traced the solar activity that caused the 2024 Mother’s Day storms, which ...

DURHAM, N.H. — (June 23, 2026) — For decades, scientists have searched for a clear link between the Sun’s explosive storms and the weather that occurs on Earth. A breakthrough study from the ...

The effects of extreme space weather may be larger than previously thought, research in the journal Nature reveals. The paper, titled "Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic ...

A team at the Applied Physics Lab is working to understand the complex science behind predicting invisible threats that can quickly cripple electric grid infrastructure on Earth. On the morning of ...

A geomagnetic storm is hitting Earth right now. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center confirmed G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm conditions through Wednesday after fast solar wind from a large coronal ...