No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

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

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

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

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

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

Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us ...

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

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

Multiple eruptions from the Sun will create possible displays of Northern Lights in the U.S. this week, with ongoing impacts ...

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

Look toward the northeast in the direction of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) about 25 degrees above the horizon. The comet will ...