NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow satellites to glide on the light from the sun could soon become a reality. The ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...

Space weather. It refers to how solar eruptions affect Earth. The Earth’s magnetic field deflects most of this energy, but ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

NEW ORLEANS — Scientists continue to advance the process of updating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Scales, with the next steps expected to be taken ...

Solar winds are electrically charged particles emitted from the sun that are mostly made up of protons and electrons. The sun ...

What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent National Academies decadal report on solar and space physics, answered questions ...

Chance to view International Space Station above South Carolina returns and should last for a week. Nightly windows will ...