The same space weather that sparks spectacular auroras across the night skies can also damage infrastructure due to the flow of electrical currents, potentially causing power outages, a study has ...

The researchers say that the interplanetary shocks are predictable about two hours before they strike Earth, so understanding their approach angle could allow keepers of infrastructure facilities on ...

The Northern Lights, also known as aurora, is a natural light display, caused by the solar wind. (Photo by:Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) "Interplanetary shocks" ...

Scientists find that interplanetary shocks which strike Earth’s magnetic field head-on cause more powerful ground-level electric currents, threatening pipelines and submarine cables Auroras have ...

Data from Cluster, and other spacecraft monitoring the magnetosphere, have shown that interplanetary shocks -- caused by coronal mass ejections from the Sun -- can create "killer electrons" in the ...

Our planet is nestled in the center of two immense, concentric doughnuts of powerful radiation: the Van Allen radiation belts, which harbor swarms of charged particles that are trapped by Earth’s ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Early last week the bright face of the sun showed even brighter spots, each of them a gigantic explosion tossing gas and magnetism deep into space. Blasts of charged particles crossed millions of ...