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

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the ...

When that solar wind slams into Earth, it interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. The bigger the impact, the stronger the ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at ... There are also magnetic fields interacting at the sun’s surface; it’s possible these magnetic fields are hitting each other with ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

The solar wind is matter that is blown ... can impinge on our protection. It can hit hard, like a shockwave, and change the structure of our magnetic field. Particles can be accelerated back ...

Their combined impact squashed the Earth’s magnetosphere—where the planet’s magnetic field interacts with the solar wind—down from ... predict when a CME will hit Earth, plus or minus ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts of plasma and magnetic fields towards Earth ... exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment ...

The other three satellites each have wide-field imagers that can watch as the corona forms the solar wind, and then track ... the properties of stars, such as magnetic activity.

The aurora borealis might appear in skies from Washington to New York, lighting up the night with beautiful colors, as a stream of electrically charged particles called "solar wind" hits the poles ...

The UK weather agency issues regular space weather forecasts for both the northern and southern hemisphere. For the northern hemisphere, which is the half of the Earth that lies north of the equator, ...