The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Earth and Mars showed very different responses to the same solar storm.

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.

A powerful solar superstorm in 2024 caused unexpected computer errors on spacecraft orbiting Mars, according to a study in Nature Communications.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

A powerful 2024 solar superstorm struck Mars, flooding its atmosphere with electrons and briefly disrupting orbiting ...

Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons' Almost two years ago, a solar storm hit Earth, triggering auroras that were seen as far south as Mexico. The storm ...

We should be very grateful for our planet’s magnetic field every day, but in particular when there is a massive solar storm.

New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

According to a new research published in early 2026, our understanding of how Mars became a desert has been completely ...

A pair of European Mars Orbiters have been used to observe the impact of the historic May 2024 solar storm on Mars. The ...