After an X-class solar flare erupted, shortwave radio blackouts were detected across the Americas — the sunlit side of Earth at the time. These disruptions, common during intense solar activity, occur ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Understanding Solar Storms Solar storms, often referred to as space weather events, are a fascinating phenomenon that can ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...

A G3 geomagnetic storm is predicted to strike Earth, with displays of the Northern Lights possible across northern U.S. states.

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

One of the greatest risks to astronauts is radiation, as rays from Earth’s magnetic field, solar energetic particles from the ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...