A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing ...

A powerful solar storm arrived last May and pushed Earth’s protective systems harder than anything seen in more than twenty years. When waves of charged material erupted from the Sun and slammed into ...

The May 2024 solar storm, which was the biggest in two decades, squeezed one of Earth's protective layers to one-fifth its size. This layer of charged particles — called the plasmasphere — dropped ...

Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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A powerful geomagnetic storm recently compressed Earth’s outer plasma shield so dramatically that satellites found themselves flying through a region of space that is usually safely above the planet’s ...

Dr. Atsuki Shinbori from Nagoya University’s Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research led the new study, determining for the first time what the impact of such a space weather event is on the ...

A geomagnetic superstorm is one of the most extreme forms of space weather, created when the Sun sends enormous bursts of energy and charged particles toward Earth. These powerful events rarely occur, ...

Scientists have captured the first detailed observations of how a superstorm compresses Earth's plasmasphere and reveal why recovery took more than four days, affecting navigation and communication ...

Abstract: GPS precise orbit determination antenna observations from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) satellites represent a new plasmaspheric data ...

Abstract: A tomographic method has been developed for reconstructing the topside ionospheric and plasmaspheric electron density distribution using total electron content (TEC) measurements from global ...