#space-weather

NASA spacecraft data from a 2023 solar storm suggest Mars can experience the Zwan-Wolf effect, a plasma-squeezing phenomenon previously thought to require a full magnetosphere.

Research presented in Europe warns that solar storms can induce currents in railway systems, potentially disrupting track-circuit signaling and, in the worst case, flipping signals in dangerous ways.

A study of 70 coronal holes on the Sun links magnetic structure to high-speed solar wind streams, offering a potential step toward better space weather forecasting.

After a decade of preparation, the joint ESA-China SMILE mission is set to launch on May 19, 2026 to study how solar activity interacts with Earth’s protective magnetic environment.

Researchers have developed a way to assign magnetic polarity to far-side solar active regions using helioseismic maps, a step that could sharpen space weather forecasting before trouble rotates into view.

NASA is preparing to launch STORIE, an instrument bound for the International Space Station that will look outward at Earth’s ring current to better understand a charged-particle system that can affect satellites and the

The European Space Agency says Proba-3 has demonstrated precision formation flying and begun producing early science results by creating on-demand solar eclipses in space to study the corona and the origins of space 
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have produced detailed simulations of solar prominences, offering a fuller picture of how cooler plasma can remain suspended in the million-degree corona.

A report that the Sun unleashed two X-class solar flares within seven hours, triggering temporary radio outages on Earth, highlights how quickly space weather can move from observation to disruption.

A large hole in the sun’s atmosphere is sending high-speed solar wind toward Earth, with auroras forecast to reach several northern US states on Friday and Saturday.

Images from ESA’s Proba-3 mission indicate that slow solar wind in the inner corona can travel three to four times faster than scientists had expected, offering a new look at one of solar physics’ hardest regions to see.

A new warning on severe space weather argues that an extreme solar storm could do more than damage satellites and power systems: it could trigger panic buying, misinformation, protests, and wider public disorder.

Observations from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured unusually strong calcium and hydrogen signatures in the fading stage of a solar flare, giving researchers a rare high-resolution look at behavior current fl

New work highlighted by Phys.org says research on coronal holes could improve forecasting of fast solar wind streams that can disrupt critical systems on Earth.

Astroscale has cleared a critical design review for the Orpheus mission, a British military-backed pair of cubesats intended to track low Earth orbit objects and study space weather effects on communications and signals.

NASA and NOAA are working to protect Artemis astronauts from dangerous solar storms, a reminder that returning humans to the Moon means operating beyond the relative shelter of Earth’s magnetosphere.

New analysis highlighted by Universe Today argues that plasma waves inside the solar wind play a larger role in redistributing energy across the Solar System than many models have assumed.

NASA says a set of technology and science demonstrations will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission, with experiments spanning space weather, magnetic-field sensing, in-space communications, logistics, and thermal-prote

NASA citizen scientists have found that solar active regions lasting more than a month produce up to six times more intense solar flares than typical regions — with major implications for space weather forecasting.

ESA's Mars orbiters captured unprecedented data as a massive solar storm hit the Red Planet, causing spacecraft glitches and supercharging Mars's upper atmosphere.