Aurora conditions may be strong enough over the next few nights that the norther lights could be seen visually and with cameras. Here’s when to look up and gaze at the sky.

Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, and even pose risks to spacecraft and ...

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 wiped ...

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

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...

Last week, the sun spat out the strongest solar flare of the year so far, a burst of radiation and light that caused brief ...

Scientits have described how a solar flare could have a devastating impact on the world's communications and what States ...

Scientists have found evidence of the most powerful storm in history, which hit Earth in 14,300 years ago. It would cause ...

A massive X-class solar flare has erupted from the ... The powerful X2.7-class flare hit the daylight side of Earth with a wave of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation, causing R3-level ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in radiocarbon.

Scientists have discovered evidence of an extraordinarily powerful solar storm that bombarded Earth 14,300 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. This event was far more intense than any solar ...

Incredible video from the European Space Agency reveals just how close Earth was to a direct hit from the 'bird wing' solar eruption.