"Jenn was a brilliant scientist and a beloved friend and colleague who dedicated her life to understanding geomagnetic storms and their impacts on Earth."

A geomagnetic storm is headed toward Earth, potentially bringing displays of the northern lights and disruptions to critical infrastructure.

The Northern Lights are headed South. Forecasters say more than half of the United States may witness the Aurora Borealis on Monday, June 2, thanks to a powerful solar eruption known as a coronal mass ejection.

Live updates from the May 30 SpaceX GPS III-7 satellite mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next strongest was the 1839 Carrington Event.