Three days before a solar storm arrived on May 10, 2024, they watched as a dark knot on the sun — tangled magnetic field lines spanning 124,000 miles — took aim at the planet. “That's magnets twisting ...

GPS has become so dependable that we barely think about it. We ask where we are, and a satellite system thousands of miles away answers within seconds with an accuracy under ten feet (three meters).

Every so often, the sun unleashes a burst of charged particles powerful enough to light up the sky far from the poles and ...

A 175-year-old mistake about a major solar storm has been uncovered, changing the timeline of space weather’s earliest ...

These storms begin when the Sun throws off plasma and magnetic energy from its corona in coronal mass ejections.

A 178-year-old mystery surrounding one of the earliest recorded examples of space weather affecting technology has been ...

For years, scientists have struggled to determine why the sun's atmosphere is more than 300 times hotter than its surface. But a new study has found a possible answer: giant super-tornadoes on the sun ...

The sun is the reason life exists on our small, blue planet. It provides solar radiation that warms the planet and ignites intricate biochemical processes like photosynthesis, producing oxygen for ...

A recent solar storm that hit Earth turns out to have been so powerful it stopped GPS from functioning properly. In regions ...

The trail began with work by researcher Fusa Miyake on ancient Japanese cedars. Studying the wood from a long-lived tree on ...

A 16-minute train delay in Victorian England has helped scientists solve a 178-year-old mystery about one of the earliest ...