Unexpected solar activity caused Binar satellites to re-enter early, illustrating challenges of solar weather in low orbit.

Sunspots captured astronomers' interest, and with the expanding availability and quality of telescopes, were closely tracked until 1645. Despite huge interest in them, astronomers could find no ...

This is a time when the sun puts out the most solar flares and has the most average sunspots on its surface in its ...

Intense Solar Flares in Recent Times: What Are They, Why Do They Occur, and What Are Their Effects? What is a Solar Flare?

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

They don’t have altitude control systems, so they can’t adjust their orbits. Solar activity, such as sunspots, solar flares, ...

Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Solar activity includes phenomena such as sunspots, solar flares and solar wind – the stream of charged particles that flows toward Earth. This activity is a product of the Sun's ever-changing ...

Three Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than ...