Five years of monitoring at two Minnesota solar farms found more insects and a sharp increase in flowering plant diversity ...

Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.

Nearly 60 percent is the headline result from a radiation-protection vest flown around the Moon, but it is a modeled result ...

In March 2025, NASA launched the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission in an effort to better ...

New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get.

A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot could drastically cut the ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon ...

A gigantic solar eruption in November 2021 defied expectations. Two spacecraft—Solar Orbiter at 0.85 AU and Wind at 0.98 AU—watched the same coronal mass ejection (CME) as it zoomed through the solar ...

A solar storm is a sudden explosion of particles, energy, magnetic fields and material blasted into the solar system by the sun When directed towards earth they can create a disturbance in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern lights are pictured over Portsall in western France on January 19. - Oscar Chuberre/AFP/Getty Images Powerful solar ...

The solar cycle can be irregular, but some patterns might be trackable—enough to provide a heads-up before extreme weather events.

A proposed StormWall spacecraft fleet could release gas to weaken solar storms, protecting satellites, power grids and technology, but potentially reducing auroras.