Every fraction of a degree of warming edges Earth towards triggering all kinds of climate tipping points, and the report lays ...

Coronal mass ejections are powerful releases of plasma, electrically charged particles from the Sun. The Sun is constantly ...

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Lightning, when coupled with solar flares, can knock electrons flying above the Earth out of place. AP Photo/David Zalubowski There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the ...

GOES-19 satellite, which became operational Tuesday, covers the GOES East orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. It is the final piece of an advanced series of weather satellites to provide better ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

Ah, New Hampshire, home to extensive granite formations and quarries, the first presidential primary in the U.S., delicious apple cider donuts — and the worst weather on Earth. Of course, that weather ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...

Earth moves 2 million miles closer to the sun from summer to winter, yet temperatures drop 40+ degrees. The answer lies in Earth's tilt.

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...