The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. ... CubeSat fortuitously comes back to life to make the discovery. The new discovery was made by NASA's CIRBE satellite, ...

Astronomers discovered the dynamics of a significant solar storm in May 2024, linked to a rare cascade of six Coronal Mass ...

On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the Sun on May 7, ... Driven by solar eruptions, geomagnetic storms can decimate satellites, ... Discovered by CIRBE, ...

The great solar storm of May 2024, which sparked beautiful auroral displays over much of the world, also created two new radiation belts that were observed with a satellite that came back from the ...

The Parker Solar Probe snapped images of the Sun from a distance of 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the surface at ...

Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” The Parker Solar Probe has successfully ...

Last summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe split the predawn skies in a blaze of light as it headed closer to the sun than any other spacecraft. Named for pioneering University of Chicago astrophysicist ...

The sun is getting more active as it nears solar maximum, and the Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe missions are perfectly poised to witness our star’s increasing flares and storms.