When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...
A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.
The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.
Earth and Mars showed very different responses to the same solar storm.
What happens to a satellite when the Sun becomes less of a distant light source and more of an active engineering hazard? That question has become harder to ignore as Solar Cycle 25 pushes through its ...
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
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 ...
In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Dr. Lulu Zhao, an ...