At the Met Office headquarters, the screens in one corner of the control centre are focussed on close up imagery of the Sun. It is here that a space weather prediction team, one of only a small number ...

The effects of extreme space weather may be larger than previously thought, research in the journal Nature reveals. The paper, titled "Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic ...

The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild, and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar flares, giant explosions on the sun, can send out streams of energy that ...

BGS scientists were part of an international team that has solved a 178-year-old mystery surrounding one of the earliest ...

Space weather refers to changes in the space environment that can interfere with satellite communications, air travel and power grids on Earth. Like weather on Earth, space weather cannot be halted, ...

Solar storms satellites must withstand are among the most powerful natural space events, driven by space weather activity that releases massive energy bursts into the solar system. These events ...

The aurora australis over the telescopes in the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation published new findings detailing how ...

A solar flare eruption showing magnetic reconnection on the Sun’s surface, releasing intense energy as electromagnetic radiation and driving coronal mass ejections, key drivers of space weather. A ...

A storm sent a surge of current through telegraph wires that caused a train on one of Britain's early railway lines to be ...

The Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will study the interaction between space weather and the Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary ...

New evidence suggests Earth’s response to solar storms has no upper limit, raising the risk of severe satellite, power and communication failures. Space weather – caused by fluctuating electric fields ...