Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

This solar storm not only disrupted GPS communications but also created two new temporary radiation belts around Earth. These belts, located between the two permanent Van Allen belts, surprised ...

In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Designed to study Earth's Van Allen radiation belts ... to be the product of the intensity of May 2024's solar storms. Temporary radiation belts also usually last for at most four weeks before ...

The great solar storm of May 2024 ... Designed to study Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, CIRBE launched in April 2023 but fell silent in mid-April 2024 as the result of an onboard technical ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

Trillions of charged particles in Earth's radiation belts interact with lightning, impacting space weather and spacecraft ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...