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

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

During the 1859 solar storm, it was visible in the tropics. A newspaper in Hawaii reported that the view in the Honolulu sky was almost as if they had been standing in the Arctic. Amid all this ...

The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Sunspot R3664 ...

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This made him the first scientist to make that connection. The solar storm of 1859 — which ice core samples from Antarctica proved was twice as big as any other solar storm in the last 500 years ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Northern lights may be visible in parts of the U.S. Monday night following weekend solar storms.

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