A coronal mass ejection, or CME, was hurled out by the sun on Tuesday, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center said. The CME, ...

But researchers found that the space hurricane formed under a northward-aligned IMF, which typically "closes the door" to geomagnetic activity. As a result, these storms often go unnoticed by standard ...

"Our study revealed that space hurricanes can trigger significant ionospheric irregularities," researcher Zan-Yang Xing told Newsweek.