The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

A fresh blast of solar wind is set to enhance aurora activity just in time for Valentine's Day. If conditions are right, the ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the Sun rocked the planet. Brilliant auroras engulfed the skies, ...

"The Earth’s magnetosphere traps the high energy radiation particles and shields the Earth from the solar storms and the constantly streaming solar wind that can damage technology as well as ...

A discovery made by a Nasa CubeSat has revealed that the historic solar storm of 2024, which caused the aurora borealis to be visible as far south as Florida and the northern Caribbean, also produced ...

Washington, D.C., was set to see its biggest snowstorm of the season. More than 100 million Americans are under alerts for snow, ice and flooding as three winter storms cross the country over the ...

The mission is expected to improve space weather predictions by allowing real-time tracking of solar storms. Nicholeen Viall, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, noted that PUNCH ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled solar cell has the same efficiency as the ...

Two winter storms threatened to roll across the nation in the next few days before a possible "atmospheric river" sweeps into California with what could be multiple inches of rain in Southern ...