WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot.

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Northern lights may be visible in parts of the U.S. Monday night following weekend solar storms.

Scientists have uncovered the most powerful solar storm ever, resetting what we know about space weather limits.

we see as northern lights. Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name. The first one reached here Aug. 28 ...

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 ...

The predicted "view line," or the southernmost spot where skygazers might still be able to view the northern lights, also ...

It produced a solar particles 500 times greater than the most intense solar particle storm recorded by modern satellites in ...