Lightning, when coupled with solar flares, can knock electrons flying above the Earth out of place. AP Photo/David Zalubowski There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. That CME has now arrived, triggering severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions far earlier than initially forecast.

A strong geomagnetic storm in spring 2024 brought the northern lights unusually far south, as the auroral oval expanded well beyond its typical position. "I am surprised at how sparse the measurement network is, even though ... Spirals of solar wind can ...

Nvidia announced the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics to accelerate the development of more accurate weather forecasting. Climate-related weather events have had a $2 trillion impact on the global economy over the last decade, the ...