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Study Finds Solar Threshold That Speeds Space Junk’s Descent

The result gives satellite operators a timing cue for fuel budgets during high solar activity.

Medieval Records and Tree Rings Pinpoint a 1200–1201 Solar Proton Event

Parker Solar Probe Completes Record-Close 27th Pass of the Sun

Reanalysis Points to Solar Storm as Cause of Uranus’s 1986 Radiation Belt Spike

Corrected Qufu Coordinates Confirm 709 BCE Total Eclipse, Tighten ΔT Estimates

Scientists Directly Detect Torsional Alfvén Waves in the Sun’s Corona

Chandrayaan-2 Records First Direct Solar Storm Effects on the Moon’s Exosphere

Perseverance Captures Second Martian Aurora as Team Unveils Forecasting Strategy

NASA and IBM Release Surya, an Open Heliophysics AI to Boost Space-Weather Forecasts

NASA Launches Twin TRACERS Probes to Study Solar Wind–Magnetosphere Coupling

ESA’s Proba-3 Twin Satellites Create Artificial Solar Eclipses to Study Sun’s Corona

ESA’s Proba-3 Mission Captures Artificial Solar Eclipse Images

G4 Geomagnetic Storms Illuminate Skies Over Germany and Beyond

NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Green Aurora from Space

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Survives Record-Breaking Close Encounter With the Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Achieves Historic Close Approach to the Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set for Record-Breaking Close Encounter With the Sun

Study Reveals Sun May Be Overdue for a Rare and Powerful Superflare

ESA's Proba-3 Satellites Launch to Create Artificial Solar Eclipses

Northern Lights Could Illuminate Northern U.S. Skies Tonight