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

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was spared this time, scientis ...

A photographer snapped a striking shot of Comet Lemmon streaking over Scotland as the night sky unexpectedly filled up with a ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

A solar flare powerful enough to destroy Earth is physically impossible—even the largest known eruptions, known as X-class ...

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

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of northern lights across ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

Skywatchers across North America should be on high alert as a rare train of four CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the Sun ...