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 ...

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

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 ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to shut down power grids on Earth, disrupt aircraft routes, global communications ...

The next strongest was the 1859 Carrington Event. It was spurred by a huge solar flare that triggered a powerful geomagnetic storm on Earth. The resulting "space weather" disrupted telegraph ...

"However, compared to the iconic Carrington Event of 1859 ... but don't yet have the ability to predict these flares. "The details of solar flares remain somewhat elusive in the sense that ...

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

Although AR 14100 is smaller than it was two weeks ago, it shows no signs of disappearing completely, and has unleashed several solar flares since reemerging ... 14% of the solar disk and spat out the ...

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