New research shows extreme space weather may be stronger than expected, raising concerns for satellites and power grids.

G1 geomagnetic storm September 2026: Two large coronal holes in Earth-facing positions are sending back-to-back solar wind ...

Forecasters knew something unusual was hurtling toward Earth. Three days before a solar storm arrived on May 10, 2024, they watched as a dark knot on the sun — tangled magnetic field lines spanning ...

Using continuous imagery from NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial ...

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 ...

A solar storm knocked out GPS for hours last year. Scientists finally find how the disruption happened - Solar storm led to ...

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 ...

When a Lancaster University team set out to learn whether solar energetic particle events — bursts of high-speed charged particles unleashed by solar flares and coronal mass ejections — could warm ...

Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a red sky, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree branches creak and crack. No, the apocalypse has not descended on your ...