When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Mars endured an unprecedented solar superstorm, and European Space Agency (ESA) orbiters, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, captured the chaos, highlighting the Red Planet’s radiation ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer fail. On Mars on May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.

The Sun occasionally unleashes enormous bursts of energy called coronal mass ejections, and scientists warn that a powerful solar superstorm could one day strike Earth. Such an event could disable ...

While Earth experienced dazzling auroras seen as far south as Mexico, Mars faced a very different and far more intense impact.

We should be very grateful for our planet’s magnetic field every day, but in particular when there is a massive solar storm.

Two European Space Agency (ESA) probes orbiting Mars have observed the impact of a powerful solar "superstorm” on the Martian atmosphere and on space equipment, according to a study published in the ...

A powerful 2024 solar superstorm struck Mars, flooding its atmosphere with electrons and briefly disrupting orbiting ...