Study reveals devastating effect solar storms could have on satellites - Even single collision between satellites may develop ...

High above the quiet winter skies, the Sun has fired off a blast of energy now racing toward the Earth. According to NOAA’s ...

A powerful M8.1 solar flare sent a full-halo coronal mass ejection toward Earth, and scientists expect it to trigger strong G3 geomagnetic storm levels on Tuesday. Forecasts show the Kp index rising ...

A solar storm could knock out navigation and communications systems, caushing satellites to crash into each other.

For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south as Florida. The cause: dual solar storms unleashed by the sun reaching Earth. A severe ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Severe solar storms on Tuesday produced colorful northern lights across the U.S., with some Floridians getting a chance to experience them. The brightness of the auroras and their ...

Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun ...

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center similarly upgraded its forecast from G3, meaning “strong,” to G4, indicating “severe” conditions, for Wednesday. Meanwhile, the British Geological Society says ...

Activity on the sun is not constant; it varies along a cycle of about 11 years. The peak of this solar cycle — called solar maximum — is when sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...