That complexity could mean bigger fireworks ahead. With the sunspot now rotating to face Earth, it could pose a threat for ...

The magnetosphere, formed by Earth's magnetic field, acts as a protective shield that deflects solar wind—the flow of charged ...

Dec. 15, 2006 — -- A large electromagnetic "storm" has broken out on the face of the sun, sending masses of charged subatomic particles through the space that surrounds planet Earth. Images ...

A hot Jupiter-like planet, HIP 67522 b, is causing its young solar system to erupt with solar flares, potentially leading to ...

Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...

The sun has had an active few days, firing several powerful solar flares and (plumes of searing-hot solar material out into space. On Tuesday (May 13), a sunspot on the sun's surface named AR4086 ...

Earth’s magnetosphere protects us from charged particles constantly emitted by the Sun, but intense conditions can breach it ...

When a flare’s X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation strike Earth, they rapidly increase the ionization of the D-layer of the ionosphere, a region 48 to 90 kilometers above the surface.

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led ...

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