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

Space weather forecasting doesn't yet command the same resources as Earth weather forecasting, even though the stakes are ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Solar flares of this magnitude are uncommon, according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Solar flares are ranked by strength in five classes: A, B, C, M and X, with each step ...

X2.7-class eruption from sunspot AR4087 on May 14, 2025. | Credit: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center GOES 19 satellite. The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X ...

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 ...