And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

These titanic plasma explosions, also known as solar flares, each unleashed the energy of a million hydrogen bombs. Parts of ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

A solar storm occurs when the magnetic fields of the sun get twisted enough from its rotation that they snap. When this happens, they release massive amounts of energy into space. We are not in direct ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...