After an X-class solar flare erupted, shortwave radio blackouts were detected across the Americas — the sunlit side of Earth at the time. These disruptions, common during intense solar activity, occur ...

The movie 'Geostorm' shows the devastation that can happen to our planet during a geometric storm, but what would a real life storm actually look like?

Earth’s magnetosphere – the region of space dominated by the planetary magnetic field – provides some protection for astronauts in missions in low-Earth orbit. But astronauts travelling beyond that – ...

"Due to subtleties in the way the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere, there is a tendency towards larger geomagnetic storms, and thus better auroras, to occur near the equinoxes," ...

Geomagnetic storms occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's magnetosphere, potentially causing disruptions in satellite communications, power grid fluctuations, and — most ...

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned nine ...