In May last year, the United States government hosted its first-ever “Space Weather Tabletop Exercise,” a hypothetical ...

Panelists expressed serious concerns over the nation’s storm readiness in the wake of the widespread federal job cuts.

"We are getting close," Martínez Pillet says. "Operational predictions from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) are good, but what we're missing is more data from all sides of the sun." ...

service coordinator for the Space Weather Prediction Center, told Gizmodo in an earlier interview. “That’s when we can see what the CME is composed of. How strong is it magnetically?

“We are at solar maximum, so there can be periods of more activity,” a spokesperson for the Space Weather Prediction Center told Global News in an email. The spokesperson added that the active ...

The flare, peaking on May 14 at roughly 8:35 AM (GMT), has already led to global communication disruptions, with the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) confirming the event's impact.

Sunspots are linked to the arrival of solar flares. According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), some flares can reach speeds of between 250 km and 3,000 km a second. Solar flares ...

Forecasters monitor satellite feeds and other data at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, in May 2024.(Trevor Hughes/USA Today Network/Imagn Images via CNN Newsource ...

Why are the latest solar flares significant? According to the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, the May 14 solar flare was particularly significant because of the level of intensity.

There are roughly a dozen experts who work at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, with generally two scientists on any given 24-hour shift. They have recently lost three ...