CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

On a quiet mountainside in Suwa, a city tucked away in central Japan, engineers are preparing to receive a faint but ...

NASA’s advice to future astronauts caught in a solar storm on Mars? Hide behind something — or get ready to absorb a devastating radiation dose. Instruments on the Curiosity Rover registered strong ...

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or ...

The strongest solar radiation storm in nearly seven years just occurred, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. On Saturday, June 8, an S3 solar radiation storm impacted Earth, the ...

Sunspot Region AR3697 (formerly AR3664) has erupted with powerful solar flares in recent days. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It ...

With the solar eclipse buzz at its peak, misconceptions follow. So how can you tell eclipse fact from eclipse fiction? You rely on the experts. NASA states that humans have viewed the solar eclipse ...

Will a solar eclipse harm a pregnant woman's baby if she looks at it? Does an eclipse emit special radiation that can instantly blind you? Those are some of the ideas people have been asking about — ...