The sun is far exceeding the consensus forecast, National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Scott McIntosh said last year, ...

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were sent to the International Space Station last June before a bungled test flight left them ...

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thousands of SpaceX satellites had to make abrupt course corrections, ascending to avoid the sudden increase in atmospheric drag after a solar flare and its associated CME. No discussion of solar ...

came from one of the largest solar flares on record at the time and became the sixth most intense storm seen in more than 70 years, the NOAA said. SpaceX Dragon to depart ISS with scientific ...

A powerful wave of solar activity is threatening global communications, power systems, and satellite networks, as scientists ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar ...

NASA study shows geomagnetic storms can reduce satellite lifetimes by up to 10 days, affecting the growing number of SpaceX ...

(Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky) When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun ... will blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. A technician installs an ...

Solar storms pose a real threat to today’s technology. Even smaller ones can disrupt satellites, power grids and GPS systems.

The agency is working to change that: On Tuesday, SpaceX is scheduled to ... A few days after the last solar storm, we had one of the strongest flares we’ve seen since 2005.