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ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years
The Sun has been throwing some major temper tantrums lately, its active sunspot AR13664 directing m…
Major solar storm alert: Third CME this week to hit Earth on May 10-11, possibly affecting satellite communications, GPS and power grids
The Sun has spewed out six X-class flares in the past week, the last three whoppers clocking in at …
The first severe solar storm in 20 years could spark auroras across the US
Many states could be in for a rare treat this Friday night. "I think we're going to see some really…
Ellyn Lapointe
I saw the northern lights during the historic solar storm. I was surprised by how misleading the photos are.
The northern lights can appear in the sky above places like San Francisco or New York. They're beau…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
John Deere dealership says a solar storm left GPS tracking on farmers' tractors 'extremely compromised'
The severe geomagnetic storm that hit over the weekend scrambled some GPS-powered farm equipment, a…
Ana Altchek
NASA telescope discovers mysterious hotspot of high-energy particles beyond our galaxy
Gamma rays and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are filling a huge area of the sky. An astronomer call…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal tiny flares shooting from a 'hole' in the sun. They could explain how the sun blasts Earth with charged particles.
Solar Orbiter's discovery of these jets, called "picoflares," could solve the mystery of how the su…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday
The cluster of sunspots could send solar weather our way as early as Saturday, though it's difficul…
Marianne Guenot
A NASA probe flew straight through an explosion from the sun, and found a key clue to how solar storms form
Insight into coronal mass ejections provided by a NASA probe could help better predict solar explos…
Marianne Guenot
A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
Aditya L1: Solar quakes can alter geomagnetic field of earth says top scientist
Ahead of India's Aditya-L1 solar mission, a top scientist said the monitoring of the Sun on a 24-ho…
PTI
ISRO’s Solar Mission launch on Sept 2 – Here is how you can register to watch it from Sriharikota
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which recently made history by becoming the first co…
Solar storms and bad space weather is making migratory birds hesitant and confused, study finds
High geomagnetic disturbances not only reduce the migration intensity (the number of birds within e…
Riding into the sun: Indian-origin NASA scientist to lead rocket mission into 2023 solar eclipse
An Indian-origin scientist at NASA is helming a mission that aims to launch three rockets during th…
After the moon, a journey to the sun with Aditya-L1
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C57 (PSLV-C57) lifted off with the country's Aditya-L1 space…
Earth's satellites, power grids and planes may have more time to prepare against the threat of solar flares
A big step in tracking down the source of a natural threat to satellites, astronauts, power grids a…
The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
A solar eruption left a void around Mars last year, causing the red planet's atmosphere to balloon …
Erin Snodgrass,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A solar eruption headed straight for Earth is eating up stray energy and could trigger a strong geomagnetic storm by Friday
A possible geomagnetic storm could make auroras visible in parts of the northern US, farther south …