Solar storms pose a real threat to today’s technology. Even smaller ones can disrupt satellites, power grids and GPS systems.

In late August and early September 1859, two geomagnetic solar superstorms walloped our ... Pantagraph in its lengthy account of the first superstorm. And the lightshow was no less spectacular ...

No solar superstorm as powerful as the 1859 event has occurred since, so it is difficult to calculate what impact a comparable storm might have on today’s more wired world. A hint came with the ...

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

A first-of its-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for severe ...

A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm ...

Still, the Gannon Storm was nowhere near as potent as the most energetic solar storm to take place in recorded history — the 1859 Carrington Event. Since the current solar cycle — the 11-year ...

Minute-by-minute, what would happen if a solar SUPERSTORM hit Earth - as scientists warn one could strike us 'at any moment' The exercise lasted two days, and asked the participants to pretend ...

The 7,405 square-foot beach house the odds in 2012, when Superstorm Sandy destroyed more than 60 homes around it. Nicknamed the “Mantoloking Miracle,” the Barnegat Lane house was the last ...