Our planet protects us from cosmic rays, solar flares, micrometeorites and huge temperature variations. But what if the planetary shield is not strong enough, or what if we venture out into space itself?! In this press conference, scientists discuss the observation of biosignatures on distant exoplanets and where is the...

Solar activity can knock satellites off track, raising the risk of collisions. Scientists are hoping improved atmospheric models will help. “It’s not unlikely that we will get a large geomagnetic storm in the next four or five years,” says Berger. “And that will really test the whole thing.” The SWx...

At the AGU's 2023 Fall meeting in San Francisco, Andong Hu, a space weather researcher with SWx TREC, presented his work on a machine learning forecast approach, developed at CU Boulder, that gives power transmission operators more lead time. He said, "It's like an early-warning system for the power system...

The first primitive ancestor of future AI-based solar-weather alert systems is live. [SWx TREC's] DstLive system, which debuted on the web in December 2022, uses machine learning to take data about the state of Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind and translate both into a single measure for the entire planet, known as DST.

A new center at the University of Colorado Boulder will begin researching space weather between the Earth and the moon to find ways to make the region safer for satellites. Right now, Principal Investigator Tom Berger said, scientists have no forecasting ability for that region of space.