The Kp index measures geomagnetic activity, with higher numbers indicating more intense aurora-producing solar storms. “If you look back at decades of data, you will find that in the typical ...

Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel ...

A great example of this occurred with the solar storms of May 2024 ... bouncing up from the ground off the ionosphere, and ...

The coming geomagnetic storms were caused by an explosion of solar particles and energy on the sun called a coronal mass ejection. Depending on their speed, these large expulsions of plasma and ...

NOAA classifies geomagnetic storms on a scale of G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme), with G5 being the most powerful and least common ...

If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating. Earth is no stranger to solar storms. Just this year we've been bombarded with storms ...

Six extreme solar storms have struck Earth in the past 14,500 years. They’re known as “Miyake” events after Fusa Miyake, a Japanese physicist, who in 2012 described that extreme solar events ...

A team of scientists has pinpointed one of the biggest solar storms to have hit Earth to 664 BC in what could be a timely warning after the northern lights were visible farther south than usual ...

Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced in mid-October that the 11-yearly peak in the sun's activity ...

Earth is no stranger to solar storms. Just this year we've been bombarded with storms, some so powerful they've triggered jaw-dropping auroras deep into mid-latitudes. Modern technology ensures ...

The primary source is the sun, with disturbances coming from solar flares, coronal mass ejections and magnetic storms. Scientists from Nasa, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and ...