A solar eruption began rising from the Sun in March 2024. Then, instead of hurling large amounts of charged material into space in the form of a coronal mass ejection (CME), it stopped. Thankfully, ...

What is the relationship between a star’s magnetic field and its space weather, specifically coronal mass ejections (CMEs)? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to ...

Referred to as a “stealth storm,” a recent coronal mass ejection went undetected until it hit Earth. Stealth coronal mass ejections are more common after the Sun transitions from the solar maximum to ...

The sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), into space. They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far ...

A coronal mass ejection could knock out power and disrupt communication on Earth Dan Falk | Science Correspondent A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2013. NASA In August of 1859, ...

A physics team led by the University of Iowa has described a “super expanded” magnetic cloud created by a coronal mass ejection on the sun. The cloud’s dimensions were captured in two intervals of ...

An artist’s impression of an eruption from a large red star and its effect on a small planet near it: the small blue object with a faint, wispy trail, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. (Olena ...

Why coronal mass ejections and late-cycle flares pose surprise threats to modern tech Illustrative image. When the CMEs (coronal mass ejection) slam into Earth's magnetosphere, they can create ...

An international team of astrophysicists and plasma physicists has provided the first experimental evidence that strong magnetic fields surrounding active stars can completely suppress coronal mass ...