Our daily lives rely on ubiquitous technologies, from smartphones to navigation systems, becoming more indispensable every ...

Imagine the Sun releasing a burst of energy so powerful it could knock out power grids, stop airplanes mid flight, and push ...

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

A worst-case solar storm could disrupt satellites, GPS, and power grids, causing significant damage to modern infrastructure, ...

A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but has caused what appeared to be only minor disruptions to the electric power grid, communications and ...

Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.

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Researchers used a Japanese poet's diary to track solar events that took place over 800 years ago.

It was an aurora, and three-day-long auroras are extremely rare,” says Hiroko Miyahara, a physicist at the Okinawa Institute ...

Another space weather feature, coronal mass ejections (shown above) send plasma and magnetic field material from the sun's corona into space and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth.

Learn how scientists are combining Medieval literature and modern scientific techniques to study space weather.