“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread disruptions and damage to the electronics aboard Earth-orbiting satellites, ...

Earth has just experienced its most powerful geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years after a series of solar storms smashed .

As we head towards a solar maximum ... of the destructive Carrington event is unlikely. What we can expect is a possible double whammy of two CMEs and G2 geomagnetic storms that could escalate ...

A hint came with the Quebec blackout of March 13, 1989, when a solar storm roughly a third less powerful than the Carrington event knocked ... The first CME probably reached Earth in a normal ...