The European Space Agency has released an image showing the south pole of the Sun. This image was taken on March 23, 2025, but was revealed yesterday on June 11,…
Every 11 years, the Sun's activity peaks in a solar maximum, unleashing powerful geomagnetic storms that heat and expand Earth's upper atmosphere. This extra heating increases atmospheric drag on satellites.…
NASA's Parker Solar Probe recorded an unprecedented plasma explosion in the Sun's corona, with a jet of particles blasting toward the star's surface. This rare event produced a sunward jet…
NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has started to get ready for the launch. It was removed from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after being transferred from…
Scientists at the University of Oulu in Finland have uncovered what they believe is a 14300-year-old solar storm — the most powerful one documented so far. They analysed carbon-14 from preserved…
Imagine being told a storm is approaching, but you won't know how dangerous it truly is until minutes before impact. That's the reality scientists face with solar storms. Although scientists…
On may 10th, a semitrailer delivered NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe or IMAP to the Astrotech space operations facility all the way from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in…
NASA has refocused its Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) launch date to no earlier than 2025 to provide more time for the mission crew to prepare. This…
A team of international astronomers, led by Weicheng Zang from the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Cfa), had announced the discovery of a planet whose size is twice…
The Gleissberg Cycle, named after the German astronomer Wolfgang Gleissberg, helps to explain why space weather is projected to get more intense in the following decades. More sunspots, flares, and…