The solar storms that cause the stunning aurora borealis and aurora australis (or northern and southern polar lights) also have the potential to knock out telecommunications equipment and navigational ...

A researcher has recently proposed that we could limit or reverse the effects of climate change by tethering a sun shield to a captured asteroid between us and the Sun. Sun shields have been proposed ...

NASA has devised a new tool in the battle against massive eruptions from the sun: an early warning system to protect electrical grids on Earth from extremely powerful solar storms. The new project, ...

When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the ...

There are many things threatening the US National Grid at the moment – rolling blackouts, lack of funding and problems integrating renewable energy – but NASAis working on their defense against ...

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Among the many extra-terrestrial challenges faced by the Earth, one of them comes straight from our planet's home star. Sun eruptions mainly come in two forms: solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

LOS ANGELES — A tiny satellite circling Earth is providing an unexpectedly complicated picture of the solar system’s heliosphere, the invisible bubble that extends far beyond the planetary orbits to ...

When Solar Orbiter launches this weekend (it's currently set to lift off on Sunday, Feb. 9), it will be protected from the sun by a very special "sandwich" heat shield. The spacecraft, which is the ...

Next week’s launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter mission would have never seen fruition if not for some ingenious heat shield engineering. Its largely ‘Solar Black’ shield relies ...