Panelists expressed serious concerns over the nation’s storm readiness in the wake of the widespread federal job cuts.

In May last year, the United States government hosted its first-ever “Space Weather Tabletop Exercise,” a hypothetical ...

X2.7-class eruption from sunspot AR4087 disrupts radio signals as the active region rotates toward Earth, raising the risk of ...

Northern Michigan could see the northern lights, or aurora borealis, the nights of May 16 and 17, weather permitting. Here's what to know.

The sun unleashed two huge flares early Wednesday, one day after a NASA observatory captured a dramatic photo of a separate ...

A strong solar flare erupted from the sun's surface, impacting radio transmissions on Earth's sunlit side on Tuesday.

There's another chance to see the northern lights in Wisconsin on May 17 and 18. Here's when and where you can catch a glimpse.

What kind of impacts could we see from a major solar storm, and what kind of work is being done to mitigate these impacts ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a geomagnetic storm watch for a pretty powerful solar event on Mother's Day Weekend and I ...

Spain has not reached any conclusions about what caused a major power outage on April 28, contrary to online claims saying authorities are blaming them on solar flare activity, a theory space weather ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington climbed the stairs ...