The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

In 2024, scientists pulled off something never done before — they tracked a monster solar region, NOAA 13664, for 94 straight ...

NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar ...

For more than three months, a pair of observatories, positioned on either side of the Sun, managed to track an active region ...

Researchers have proposed a theoretical timepiece, dubbed the "CRASH Clock," which tells us how quickly satellites would ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

ISRO Aditya-L1 reveals how a powerful solar storm compressed Earth’s magnetic field, impacting satellites and space weather ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

For a long stretch of time, scientists were under the impression that our star was slowly entering hibernation. Known as the "deep solar minimum," this period started in the 1980s and ended in 2008.

In May 2024, the strongest solar storm in twenty years raged. An international team led by ETH Zurich observed it. Their ...

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