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

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.

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 ...