New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

The European Space Agency has conducted its most severe solar storm simulation yet, warning that a Carrington-level ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

Simulation in preparation for Sentinel-1D shows that satellites would be destroyed when faced with a super solar storm.

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti is the Principal Investigator of Space Weather Investigation Frontier (SWIFT). He receives funding from NASA. W. Manchester is a Co-Investigator of Space Weather Investigation ...

The northern lights could potentially be visible as a possible geomagnetic storm could impact the planet Thursday. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm ...

The northern lights have a moderate chance of appearing in the skies above some states Tuesday evening, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted, as the Earth could ...

Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations to forecast how these destructive storms form and where they might travel, ...