Solar storms can wreak havoc. We need better space weather forecasts

Scientists are expanding efforts to probe outbursts from the sun and understand their occasionally Earthbound paths

Coronal mass ejection from July 2012

A burst of solar activity unleashed a huge coronal mass ejection that just missed Earth in July 2012.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Since December 2019, the sun has been moving into a busier part of its cycle, when increasingly intense pulses of energy can shoot out in all directions.