In May last year, the United States government hosted its first-ever “Space Weather Tabletop Exercise,” a hypothetical ...

Space weather forecasting doesn't yet command the same resources as Earth weather forecasting, even though the stakes are ...

Northern Michigan could see the northern lights, or aurora borealis, the nights of May 16 and 17, weather permitting. Here's what to know.

The sun unleashed two huge flares early Wednesday, one day after a NASA observatory captured a dramatic photo of a separate ...

There's another chance to see the northern lights in Wisconsin on May 17 and 18. Here's when and where you can catch a glimpse.

What kind of impacts could we see from a major solar storm, and what kind of work is being done to mitigate these impacts ...

Spain has not reached any conclusions about what caused a major power outage on April 28, contrary to online claims saying ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a geomagnetic storm watch for a pretty powerful solar event on Mother's Day Weekend and I ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington climbed the stairs ...

The two observatories, one in deep space and the other in Hawai’i have observed clouds in the northern hemisphere of Titan – ...

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center does not believe space weather is a factor in the outage, the agency told FOX Weather. "At this time, voltage has been recovered in substations in several areas ...