Was it truly possible that the night sky over Alabama could shimmer with those otherworldly greens and pinks normally ...
(NewsNation) — A new paper calculated a solar storm could bring down the planet’s satellite system in just three days, wreaking havoc on infrastructure. Low-earth orbit is home to around 14,000 ...
The rapid growth of satellite mega-constellations, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, has revolutionized global communication. However, a new study on arXiv highlights that these systems might be more fragile ...
An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...
(CNN) — For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south as Florida. The cause: dual solar storms unleashed by the sun reaching Earth. A ...
In May 2024, the strongest solar storm in twenty years raged. An international team led by ETH Zurich observed it. Their ...
A massive solar storm has delayed the launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket for a second time. The rocket is scheduled to carry NASA's ESCAPADE twin satellites on a mission to Mars. The Space ...
Low-earth orbit is home to around 14,000 satellites, a dramatic increase from around 4,000 in 2018. One major force behind the increased space congestion is tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink.