Space weather. It refers to how solar eruptions affect Earth. The Earth’s magnetic field deflects most of this energy, but ...

After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

Geomagnetic storms—the strongest of which, a G5, struck on May 10 to cause aurora around the globe—are the result of space weather. The root cause of that is the solar wind, charged particles ...

The technology would allow scientists to provide earlier warnings of space weather events such as geomagnetic storms, which have the potential to disrupt technological systems on Earth.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system ...

“This collaboration is a game-changer for space weather forecasting and a powerful example of how innovation and partnership can drive national security and societal impact,” Kevin ...

NEW ORLEANS — Scientists continue to advance the process of updating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Scales, with the next steps expected to be taken ...