Our daily lives rely on ubiquitous technologies, from smartphones to navigation systems, becoming more indispensable every ...

The Sun fired off two powerful X-class solar flares within hours, triggering temporary radio blackouts across parts of the ...

Imagine the Sun releasing a burst of energy so powerful it could knock out power grids, stop airplanes mid flight, and push ...

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solar storm increased the number of electrons in two layers of the Martian atmosphere: A 45% increase at an altitude of 68 ...

A worst-case solar storm could disrupt satellites, GPS, and power grids, causing significant damage to modern infrastructure, ...

Solar power has been around for a long time now. Once upon a time, it was mostly the preserve of research projects and large-scale municipal installations. Eventually, as the technology grew ever ...

A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but has caused what appeared to be only minor disruptions to the electric power grid, communications and ...

Researchers used a Japanese poet's diary to track solar events that took place over 800 years ago.

Another space weather feature, coronal mass ejections (shown above) send plasma and magnetic field material from the sun's corona into space and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth.

Researchers from Spain have created solar panels that are unaffected by rain by combining solar cells with a triboelectric ...