If astronauts travelling in Orion – the spacecraft used on Artemis II – receive advance word of a solar storm, they are instructed to get into storage lockers in the floor of the spacecraft. This places the crew next to Orion’s heat shield, making this area one of the most protected parts of the vehicle.

Earth endured its most intense solar radiation storm in over 22 years on January 19, 2026, a day after a powerful X1.9-class solar flare from sunspot region AR4341 triggered an R3 radio blackout within the Arctic region. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction ...

During the Artemis II mission launched Wednesday, NASA will test out a pair of new solar radiation forecasts, developed at University of Michigan Engineering, designed to protect astronauts venturing away from Earth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern lights are pictured over Portsall in western France on January 19. - Oscar Chuberre/AFP/Getty Images Powerful solar activity released by the sun reached Earth Monday ...

At 6:44 p.m. Eastern time, the crew of NASA’s moon mission Artemis II — three Americans and one Canadian — became the first astronauts in more than half a century to be cut off from the rest of humanity as their spaceship slipped behind the moon,

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission left the lunar sphere of influence on Tuesday (April 7) as they headed back to Earth following their record-setting trip around the moon.

Colorful auroras could dazzle skywatchers again on Monday night amid a severe geomagnetic storm and what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said was the largest solar radiation storm in more than 20 years. The northern lights may be seen ...