New research challenges the long-held idea of “geomagnetic saturation,” suggesting Earth’s response to powerful solar storms may continue increasing instead of reaching a natural upper limit.

"Fortunately, these very extreme cases are rare, but this also means we have limited data to work with." ...

Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Michael Starkey has provided observational evidence from the SwRI-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission of pickup ions (PUIs) and associated ...

Earth’s magnetic shield may not have the safety limit scientists once thought it did. New research suggests that the most powerful solar storms could disturb the planet’s upper atmosphere up to twice ...

The farside of the Moon receives solar wind particles at nearly full speed, while its Earth-facing side is hit by the same ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission flies two spacecraft in formation to create artificial solar eclipses lasting up to five hours, giving ...

Despite advances in science, the corona, or outermost part of the sun's atmosphere, remains mysterious. Wednesday's total ...

SOLAR-1 satellite, NOAA's replacement for DSCOVR, faces its first major operational test as a filament-eruption CME launched ...

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and telecommunications—are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space weather ...

On Earth, a similar process occurs when wind generates rolling waves and vortices as it sweeps across the surface of water.