A "severe" solar storm hit Earth on Sunday according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, causing parts of the ...
The aurora borealis could be seen as far south as Alabama and California on Thursday night, and the surge of solar particles could extend into Friday too.
"During a solar storm, explosions on the solar surface, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), emit high-speed charged ...
Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world ...
A severe geomagnetic storm could disrupt communications and bring northern lights to parts of California, according to a warning from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The event could cause glowing in the atmosphere and damage electrical infrastructure when it arrives, but we won't know the severity of the event until it's near.
The only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, Nasa's Voyager 2, passed the seventh planet in the Solar System in 1986 - and the ...
Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.
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The latest storm was preceded by the most powerful solar flare of the Sun’s current cycle, Cycle 25, when a region of sunspots delivered an X.90 flare. Solar flares, large eruptions of ...
which causes phenomena such as May's solar storm, the largest observed by NASA in decades. Scientists have observed the sun's solar cycles since 1755, and according to new observations ...
A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.