A massive solar storm knocking out electricity for months—or even years—sounds like science fiction, but it’s a looming ...

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

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

In 1859, a severe solar storm triggered auroras as far south as Hawaii and caught telegraph lines on fire in a rare event. And a 1972 solar storm may have detonated magnetic U.S. sea mines off the ...

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 ...

Last spring, the strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades slammed Earth, producing light displays across the Northern ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence of a colossal solar storm that struck Earth over 14,000 years ago, dwarfing the ...