Solar Storm

Romance is in the air today — and also predicted to be in space tonight. The conditions are perfect for a Valentine’s Day date with the aurora borealis on February 14, 2025. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says a solar wind stream is heading toward Earth just in…

Aurora above the coast of Northern Ireland. (Image credit: Evan Boyce) The great solar storm of May 2024, which sparked beautiful auroral displays over much of the world, also created two new radiation belts that were observed with a satellite that came back from the dead. "This is really stunning,"…

They can put a man on the Moon - but back on Earth, a busted water pipe managed to knock out NASA's solar mission data for months. Data from two NASA solar missions is becoming available again following an outage that began in November 2024. The affected missions are the…

In May 2024, our planet was hit by the largest solar storm in 20 years. GPS signals were disrupted, beautiful auroras glowed in the sky—and two new belts of energy appeared around the Earth, as new research shows. Scientists in the U.S. have announced the discovery of two new temporary…

The May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth. Such belts have been seen before, but the new ones were particularly long lasting, especially the new proton belt.  The findings are particularly important for spacecraft launching into geostationary orbits, which can be damaged as…

Space Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, from its massive core to its epic solar storms By Jonathan O’Callaghan Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit…

The Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - happen when solar storms collide with the earth's magnetic field, and the spectacular aerial display could be seen over several UK regions this New Year's Eve The RAF F-35 Lightning Jet under the Northern Lights ( Image: AS1 Amber Mayall/RAF / SWNS)…

Science Space How to See the Northern Lights on New Year’s Eve December 31, 2024 10:17 AM EST NEW YORK — There's a chance solar storms may bring northern lights to several northern U.S states just in time for the new year. The sun expelled two bursts of plasma that…

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The Perseid meteor shower rains “shooting stars” over Stonehenge. (Image credit: Josh Dury) You didn't need a telescope to appreciate the cosmos in 2024. With stunning global auroras , prolific meteor showers and a total solar eclipse witnessed by tens of millions of people, space came to Earth in style…