Solar Storm

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…

Auroras could be visible as far south as places like New York City this weekend, experts say. (Image credit: Brandon Rosenblum via Getty Images) Skywatchers in up to 18 U.S. states could witness auroras in the coming days as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm rocks Earth's magnetic field, starting on Friday…

Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts all of Earth on warning is rare. On May 31, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) space-based instrumentation captured real-time observations of a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that erupted from the Sun initiating a "severe…

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Northern lights above Alaska, U.S. (Image credit: Noppawat Tom Charoensinphon via Getty Images) Editor's note: We could be in for even more aurora shows tonight as the northern lights may be visible from 15 U.S. States on June 2. Northern lights could put on an impressive show tonight (June 1)…

Auroras above Kaikoura, New Zealand, during the severe geomagnetic storm. (Image credit: Sai Shankar) Wow, what a show! Our planet is currently reverberating from the impact of a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) that struck Earth head-on in the early hours of June 1 — and the resulting auroras were…

The view of the northern lights during the "Mother's Day" geomagnetic storm on May 10, 2024 from Cleveland, Ohio. (Image credit: Meredith Garofalo) Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a big solar storm…