At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...

Solar storms that fling magnetism across the solar system can knock out satellites, power grids, communication and navigation systems, and endanger astronauts in space. Scientists can observe these ...

The sun has been active and unleashed an intense combination of coronal mass ejections and coronal hole high-speed streams with a geomagnetic storm forecasted for tonight, Aug. 7, and tomorrow, Aug. 8 ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

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NASA’s IMAP spacecraft, and two other missions, will study the heliosphere that protects our solar system from interstellar space.

These discoveries illustrate NASA’s multifaceted exploration efforts in planetary science, astrophysics, lunar research, and ...

The exact timing of the CME’s arrival and how much of a geomagnetic storm will be produced remains to be seen.

Although humanity is getting better at sending robotic probes out into the Solar System to explore the places no human can tread, we're still very much on a learning curve.

The northern lights have creeped further south, but will Tennesseans be able to catch a glimpse of them again?

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is ...