A massive solar flare, followed by a series of coronal mass ejections, caused the Carrington Event, which happened on September 1, 1859. The event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused auroras ...

Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would have ...

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, and can contain as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs ...

Solar storms pose a real threat to today’s technology. ... While we may fear solar flares today, ... Scientists say this event was far stronger than the famous 1859 Carrington Event.

A solar storm is projected to impact Earth this Saturday, potentially bringing with it a dazzling celestial light show – and ...

Our sun is classified as a G2 medium-sized star. We believe it’s about four billion, 600 million years old, halfway through its lifetime. It burns four million tons of hydrogen every ...

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on June 19, peaking at 7:50 p.m. ET. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image ...

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...