The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

The spectacle was particularly enthralling for Lisa Upton, who caught the skies over Boulder, Colo., glowing eerily red. Upton, a heliophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute, is an expert in ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm last week brought rare and bright auroras, which were observed even in Florida and Mexico. Lisa Upton, a heliophysicist from the Institute of Southwestern Studies, told ...

For a few days, it sounded like a scene from a disaster movie: a “piece” of the sun appeared to shear away from its surface and whirl around the north pole, leaving even seasoned solar physicists ...

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Over the last decade, KoSO’s massive photographic collection — over 1,20,000 plates — has been digitised, converting a ...

The May 2025 storm remains the undisputed heavyweight of the current solar cycle. It was the only storm to officially reach ...

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In Lilongwe's crowded neighborhoods, some families see tap water just once a month - and only in the dead of night. These scenes of scarcity underscore a water crisis the government hopes to end with ...

As the Sun enters a period of heightened activity, students now have a new way to explore its powerful effects on Earth and ...

A solar storm similar to the 1859 Carrington Event could cause widespread damage to our technology, including satellites. New ...

Black swan events have low probability, but very high impact.  Because the frequency, magnitude, and duration of these events are uncertain, it is difficult to plan for resilience, or calculate ...