The biggest solar storm to hit the United States in more than ... Experts at NOAA say it’s probably not a big risk to Earth-based systems. But it is a rare and serious event.

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

Some of the energy is released from the sun towards Earth as sunlight, some as radiation (solar flares), and some as charged particles. The storm happens when a violent stream of charged particles ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) from a powerful solar blast on March 1 is racing toward Earth, with the potential to spark a geomagnetic storm and subsequent impressive northern lights overnight and ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma ... sometimes creating geomagnetic storms. Nearly one-third of CMEs interact with other CMEs or the solar wind, which is a stream of charged ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface ... collisions is likely what causes them to generate storms. During solar maxima, when there can be more than 10 CMEs per ...