ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

The sky over Spain is due to burst with green, pink, and purple lights just like the northern lights, as a rare “cannibal” ...

From high-frequency trading to GPS-enabled logistics, cross-border payments to timestamped transactions, modern finance is ...

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new ...

A space weather expert has warned that a sudden solar 'micronova' could trigger tsunamis, climate chaos and mass extinction, revealing exactly how the devastating event would play out.

The risk of solar storms is growing, Nasa said last week, threatening astronauts, satellites, power networks and potentially the internet. But soon humanity will have a new line of defence. On Tuesday ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous ...

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Ryan French/SDO/NASA In May 2024, scientists observed the strongest space weather event since 2003. Several Earth-directed coronal mass ejections erupted ...