Risks of potentially devastating solar storms may be underestimated, warns a new study. And the effects of extreme space weather on life on Earth may be larger than previously thought, say scientists.

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs of alien life. Despite its extensive efforts, the universe remains eerily ...

The effects of extreme space weather may be larger than previously thought, research in the journal Nature reveals. The paper, titled "Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic ...

But the effects of those storms could be even worse than we thought, researchers have warned. For decades, researchers have thought that there was an upper limit in how Earth responds to solar storms ...

Earth’s magnetic shield may not have the safety limit scientists once thought it did. New research suggests that the most powerful solar storms could disturb the planet’s upper atmosphere up to twice ...

The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild, and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar flares, giant explosions on the sun, can send out streams of energy that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another space weather feature, coronal mass ejections (shown above) send plasma and magnetic field material from the sun's corona ...

Solar storms satellites must withstand are among the most powerful natural space events, driven by space weather activity that releases massive energy bursts into the solar system. These events ...

NASA said in a news release it has selected a new mission concept aimed at improving scientists’ understanding of how Earth’s atmosphere interacts with space weather, a step the agency says could lead ...

The Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will study the interaction between space weather and the Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary ...