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
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.