Solar flares and a coronal mass ejection could push auroras into the central U.S. this weekend as a G3 geomagnetic storm ...

This story was updated 1:42 p.m. ET to include information from the most recent update from NOAA space weather officials. Space weather experts are keeping close watch for a solar storm expected to ...

A team of scientists from around the world has created the first system that can predict when and where extremely powerful solar storms, called superflares, are most likely to happen. These storms can ...

The Sun has entered one of its most volatile moods in years, hurling a torrent of powerful flares and charged particles into space that are now brushing past Earth. The latest eruption, a colossal X ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two decades. The video shown below—made from images captured by NASA’s Solar ...

Every mission to deep space is fraught with danger. A hardware failure during launch, an equipment malfunction far from Earth, or a small space rock ...