Space weather

A minor geomagnetic storm is expected to reach peak strength on Thursday, and may cause “weak power grid fluctuations,” the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center said. The G1 geomagnetic storm ...

The U.S. House Wednesday passed a bipartisan bill from Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) to bolster the country's ability ...

The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ...

I research space weather. That’s how physicists describe how storms on the sun end up affecting us here ...

The Earth’s magnetic field – known as the “magnetosphere” – protects our atmosphere from the “solar wind.”

Air travel today is extraordinarily safe. Despite the high profile downings of MH370 and MH17, aviation magazine Flightglobal ...