A small asteroid roughly the size of a house slipped past Earth on the night of May 18, 2026, passing closer than the Moon and threading through a region of space occupied by some of the satellites that keep GPS systems and communications networks running.

The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.

Don’t look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather than panic,

Forecasts say up to three glancing CME impacts could trigger G1 and possible G2 geomagnetic storms through May 20, boosting aurora chances across parts of the northern U.S.

Three coronal mass ejections fired from the sun over the past 48 hours are now racing toward Earth, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects their combined arrival to push geomagnetic storm conditions to the G2 level on the evening of June 12,

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield.

The world needs more rare earth materials. A surprisingly few mines are responsible for global production.