Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

In 2022, a geomagnetic storm caused atmospheric drag that destroyed 40 Starlink satellites, highlighting the fragility of satellite networks to space weather. NASA, NOAA, and ESA monitor solar ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

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The technology would allow scientists to provide earlier warnings of space weather events such as geomagnetic storms ... part of the Solar Cruiser project in collaboration with NASA.

A solar storm - also known as a coronal mass ejection - occurs when the Sun ejects huge quantities of protons and electrons. These then cause a plume of cosmic rays to head towards Earth.

Part of MAVEN's capabilities includes an "early warning system that lets other ... where the atmosphere gets stripped away during solar storms," the NASA statement said. Some experts posit that ...