With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for example, and a solar storm has been detected, operators can restrict the flow ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun’s solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

Eskom is spotlighting its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) programme as a potential game-changer in the country's ongoing electricity crisis. This is how BESS works and what it means for South ...

“By combining La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 with this innovative design, an impressive solar evaporation rate of 3.40 kg m⁻2 h⁻¹ under one ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Climate activist Bill McKibben said solar power’s rapid growth is good news, even if it could be bad news for Houston’s ...

A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By analyzing ultraviolet solar images, it could help protect satellites, ...

Two instruments developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are integrated into a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite set to launch into space as a rideshare on a ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...