The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on March 31, 2022, peaking at 2:35 p.m.…
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Space weather describes the dynamic conditions in Earth’s outer space environment, driven by activity from the Sun such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and high-speed solar winds. These phenomena can disrupt satellite operations, communication networks, navigation systems, and even power grids on Earth. Scientists study space weather to better understand the Sun-Earth connection and to develop forecasts that can help protect critical technologies and infrastructure from its sometimes dramatic effects.
The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, 2022, peaking at 1:35 p.m.…
What Are Solar Flares? Solar flares are large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun…
Using a NASA-funded CubeSat, scientists have uncovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining…
MIT Haystack Observatory identifies long-duration atmospheric waves launched by the recent Tonga eruption. The recent…
It’s the first mission of its kind, set to monitor our active and unpredictable Sun…
On February 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet…
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in…
A blast of high-speed solar wind provoked dancing auroras in early February. Auroras are a…
Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund…
A new study using ESA’s Cluster and Swarm missions has demonstrated how solar storms drive…
A young star, EK Draconis, unleashed a coronal mass ejection far more powerful than any…
Astrophysicists on BU’s NASA-funded SHIELD team reach another milestone on their quest to understand the…
The NASA’s CREX-2 rocket mission studies dense air in Earth’s polar cusp, using glowing tracers…
Micro-Scale Current Sheets Unleash Macro-Scale Space Weather Scientists discover new physics missing from existing models…
Our corner of the universe, the solar system, is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy,…
Among the four rocky planets in our solar system, you could say that Earth’s “magnetic”…
Energy from the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric ‘bubble’ around Earth creates waves of…