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Thinning skies may intensify the impact of future solar storms on satellites. Credit: Shutterstock As carbon dioxide continues to rise in Earth’s upper atmosphere, the way solar storms interact with it may shift dramatically. New modeling suggests that future geomagnetic storms will occur in a colder, thinner atmosphere, causing a…

NASA and IBM have released a new open-source machine learning model to help scientists better understand and predict the physics and weather patterns of the sun. Surya, trained on over a decade’s worth of NASA solar data, should help give scientists an early warning when a dangerous solar flare is…

NicoElNino - stock.adobe.com Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 20 Aug 2025 14:00 IBM and Nasa have made available on Hugging Face an open source artificial…

An artist's impression of the two TRACERS spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. (Image credit: University of Iowa/Andy Kale) A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they affect our atmosphere and satellites. NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp…

Capable of delivering multiple gigabits per second, the latest O3b mPower satellites feature software-defined payloads that are designed to adapt in real time to meet the needs of government and enterprise users worldwide. Credit: Boeing TAMPA, Fla. — Boeing has shipped two more O3b mPower broadband satellites to SES with hardware…

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise.  Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar…

Northern lights seen over a farmhouse in Iceland. (Image credit: redtea/Getty Images) Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to two days in some U.S. regions, a new…

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar eclipses on demand. Their first artificial eclipse delivered breathtaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, offering scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the solar corona. These images not only deepen our understanding of…

Daily Mirror Icon News US News Solar eclipse The European Space Agency has spearheaded a £154 million effort to understand the Sun's corona, which could provide unprecedented insight into to processes behind solar storms 01:14, 17 Jun 2025 Updated 06:44, 17 Jun 2025 Stunning pictures show the Sun's corona outlined…