A rare blast from the sun has just pushed radiation in Earth’s atmosphere to levels not seen in nearly two decades, briefly ...

Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they affect Earth—but this one snuck past coronagraphs and ...

Levels of potentially dangerous cosmic radiation in Earth's atmosphere rose to a two-decade high in November after a rare ...

A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing ...

While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to alter their routine sleeping positions due to the threat ...

Within hours of detecting the flare, the UK Met Office and its counterpart in the Netherlands launched a sequence of weather ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like ...

If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or ...

LONDON (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Scientists have discovered particles older than our solar system in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft. The ...

A cosmic ray from a faraway supernova explosion may have sent a packed passenger jet into free fall in late October, forcing ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Every day on Earth, you experience weather. You ...