Solar Storm

The newly conceptualized CRASH Clock reveals that earth-orbiting satellites would quickly start crashing into one another in an emergency scenario, such as during an extreme solar storm. (Image credit: yucelyilmaz via Getty Images) Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario…

By ZeroHedge - Jan 01, 2026, 2:00 PM CST The Van Allen radiation belts, massive regions of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, have become "fully charged" due to repeated solar storms. A space weather observer warns that the next major solar storm could cause the energetic plasma in…

Artist's illustration of space junk orbiting Earth. (Image credit: NASA) How long would it take for satellites to begin to collide with space junk and each other if they were to suddenly lose their ability to avoid each other? A new study finds that, with the immense quantity of satellites…

An image from NASA's Parker Solar Probe showing solar material changing directions. (Image credit: NASA) The sun may not be green, but it turns out to be adept at recycling. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured the clearest view yet of solar material billowing away from the sun before some…

Space Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage By Jonathan O’Callaghan Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email An artist’s representation of satellites in orbit around Earth yucelyilmaz/Shutterstock A collision would…

Updated : , ,   Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial aircraft after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month. Airbus…

In this week's science news we covered solar outbursts near and far, exploded comets, hell pigs and how to protect yourself from a quantum computer hack. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi / The Virtual Telescope Project | D. Michalik/NSF/SPT) The stars of the show in this week's science news were actually…

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim captured this view of auroras from the International Space Station on Sept. 3, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Jonny Kim) It's not all about pretty auroras when the sun shoots some ejecta our way. As people across the Earth gazed at the sky the past few nights, staring…

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