The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

In principle, cosmic-ray observations can provide detailed insights into the physical profile of a passing ICME. But despite ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

A NOAA forecast suggest that Northern Lights may be visible in northern U.S. states Saturday, Jan. 10, through Sunday, Jan.

By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

In 2024, scientists pulled off something never done before — they tracked a monster solar region, NOAA 13664, for 94 straight ...

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

NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

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.

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