SCIENTISTS have warned that the Earth could be rocked by a solar storm today after a crack opened up in the Earth's magnetosphere. Over the weekend, the Earth was hit by a geomagnetic storm, that ...

A GEOMAGNETIC storm is said to have ‘cracked’ part of Earth’s magnetic field and allowed solar wind to rush through. The solar eruption which caused the storm is something of a mystery as it’s not ...

A shock wave barreled toward Earth last night that cracked its magnetosphere, the region that shields our planet from harmful radiation. The origin of the shockwave is unknown, but astronomers believe ...

Even if we had been able to predict the storm, the planet has limited defences against the most powerful forms of space weather - and our increasing dependence on electronics makes us vulnerable to ...

A rare phenomenon known as a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is thought to have been the cause of a large geomagnetic storm that hit Earth over the weekend. Scientists were caught off-guard by ...

The storm also gave photographers the chance to picture a unusual alignment of five planets against a bright aurora. According to the Space Weather news site, the weekend's incident managed to "open a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A geomagnetic storm hit our planet over the weekend, surprising scientists as it did not appear to originate from a solar flare.