They can knock out satellites, disrupt electronic devices, and even cause massive power outages. In extreme cases, a powerful ...

2024 — Space storms could soon be forecasted with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth.

A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...

NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...

Scientists have an expansive network of space- and ground-based observatories, such as the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and others, available to monitor the ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow ... weather events such as geomagnetic storms, which have the potential to disrupt technological systems on Earth. "A lot of us have experienced sailing ...

But they did not know how ... Hurricanes Linked to Higher Death Rates for 15 Years After Storms Pass Oct. 2, 2024 — U.S. tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, indirectly cause thousands of ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting ... with Earth is remote — with NASA giving it a 3.1% chance and the European agency 2.8% — when it eventually reaches this part of the solar system ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%.

There is now a roughly 1 in 32 chance of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032, following an upgraded by NASA. According to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object ...