A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
Mars missions, Dr. Lulu Zhao shows how solar particles threaten our tech, and how AI is learning to forecast them.
Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032! New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the object will pass safely at a distance of more than 20 000 ...
The "equinox effect" doubles the chance of auroral activity in March and September, when the fall equinox takes place, scientists say.
Earth and Mars showed very different responses to the same solar storm.
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...
The modern-day 'Living Nostradamus', Athos Salomé, has shared a number of predictions around the events that he expects to unfold in 2026 - and they are terrifying.
As if returning to the Moon’s vicinity hadn’t already had enough things to delay it, now risky space weather could get in the ...
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
The Princeton-led NASA mission has officially begun its science mission to study the sun and everything it touches. Princeton marked the occasion with a panel discussion, science talks and a reception ...