New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

Although a severe solar storm made headlines last year, a 166-year-old event still remains for the most powerful bombardment ...

The European Space Agency has conducted its most severe solar storm simulation yet, warning that a Carrington-level ...

The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

Simulation in preparation for Sentinel-1D shows that satellites would be destroyed when faced with a super solar storm.

In addition to the wonderful sky sights of November we have an extra bonus — the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights, also known as the aurora, Thursday night and perhaps the next few nights.

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...