After months of intense solar flares, NASA confirms that the Sun has reached the most active period of its cycle.

"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

Research has shown that some old tree rings show evidence of "Miyake events", or unusually severe storms that are ...

Ladakh's recent aurora sightings validate space weather monitoring efforts, predicting solar storms that can disrupt ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology for the virtual seminar, Space Weather at NOAA, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 10/31 by Dr. James Spann. Abstract: The U.S. National ...

To help improve our knowledge of space physics, the National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million grant to The ...

Lightning affects both Earth's atmosphere and space. It triggers high-energy electrons in radiation belts, creating risks for ...

The sun is currently at the maximum phase of its 11-year cycle, making solar surges and northern lights more frequent.

Being a space weather forecaster, though, sounds incredibly badass. Turns out it’s also important to our daily lives, even if ...

Space weather forecasting has improved a lot, but we still can't forecast the northern lights more than one to four days in advance.

But extreme space weather – including patterns dubbed ‘solar tsunamis’ – has had a dramatic impact on New Zealand before and is expected to do so again. A leading New Zealand figure on the ...