In May last year, the United States government hosted its first-ever “Space Weather Tabletop Exercise,” a hypothetical ...

Panelists expressed serious concerns over the nation’s storm readiness in the wake of the widespread federal job cuts.

Northern Michigan could see the northern lights, or aurora borealis, the nights of May 16 and 17, weather permitting. Here's ...

What kind of impacts could we see from a major solar storm, and what kind of work is being done to mitigate these impacts ...

according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. Auroras typically form at heights ranging from about 50 to 75 miles, though they can reach heights of up to 620 miles. The lights appear in a ...

When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a geomagnetic storm watch for a pretty powerful solar event on Mother's Day Weekend and I ...

The flare originated from sunspot region AR4087 and peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT, according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), disrupting communications on the sunlit side of Earth.

The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of NOAA forecasts a G1-class geomagnetic storm, with a possibility of stronger G2 conditions. This may lead to disruptions in GPS and radio signals.

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington climbed the stairs ...

They needed a strong CME that would send a lot of charged particles into the Martian atmosphere. Similar to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), which issues forecasts for space weather ...