A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing ...

The most powerful geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle has just torn into the invisible bubble of charged particles that surrounds our planet, stripping away roughly three quarters of its ...

When last year's solar superstorm "Gannon" slammed into Earth, it not only painted the sky with beautiful auroras, but also shrunk one of the planet's protective layers to just one-fifth its usual ...

Abstract: During the strongest geomagnetic storms of the last solar cycle, severe space-weather effects were observed at mid-latitudes. These effects included large-scale enhancements of the total ...

June 3, 2026 June's night sky delivers several must-see events, starting with a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter after sunset. Mercury joins the pair to form a rare three-planet lineup, while ...

The role of the plasma sheet O+ on the ring current heating of the plasmasphere and ionosphere C. P. Ferradas M.-C. Fok S.-B. Kang C. G. Mouikis A. Glocer N. Y. Buzulukova Frontiers in Astronomy and ...