The same giant sunspot responsible for creating a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May produced a legendary storm for Mars a few days later. On May 20, data from the European spacecraft Solar Orbiter showed that an estimated X12 solar flare – the strongest type on the flare rating scale – erupted from sunspot … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, colorful aurora could soon reappear over parts of the United States — including the northern and upper Midwestern states from New York to … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, colorful aurora could soon reappear over parts of the United States — including the northern and upper Midwestern states from New York to … Read more
Editor’s Note: Bob Kolasky is senior vice president for critical infrastructure at Exiger, a provider of supply chain and third-party risk analytics for the U.S. government and critical infrastructure sectors. He is also a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He previously led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s … Read more
Editor’s Note: Bob Kolasky is senior vice president for critical infrastructure at Exiger, a provider of supply chain and third-party risk analytics for the U.S. government and critical infrastructure sectors. He is also a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He previously led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that can be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California, but could also disrupt … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that can be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California, but could also disrupt … Read more
On September 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electric shocks, having telegraph paper catch fire, and being able to operate equipment with the batteries disconnected. In the evening the northern lights, better known as the Northern Lights, could be seen as far south … Read more
On September 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electric shocks, having telegraph paper catch fire, and being able to operate equipment with the batteries disconnected. In the evening the northern lights, better known as the Northern Lights, could be seen as far south … Read more
Scientists are building a digital model of space around Earth that goes beyond the state of the art to improve the prediction of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure. Nearly seventy years after the beginning of the Space Age, scientists’ insights are… space again is still very rude. Unlike Earth’s weather, which is now … Read more