Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential communication threats.

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

Tornadoes typically spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. However, a small percentage do spin in the opposite direction. Here's why.

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Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades ...

“For the first time ever, visible aurora has been observed on Mars. It was observed using two instruments on the Mars 2020 ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We'd been at sea all afternoon and most of the ...

For millennia, Pacific voyagers have relied on techniques such as these to reach thousands of islands, strewn throughout our planet’s largest ocean. They did so without Western instruments. Instead, ...

A 2024 geomagnetic storm exposed vulnerabilities on Earth, disrupted GPS, power grids, and is reshaping our view of solar ...

The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an "artificially drawn line." But experts say just because ...