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

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 ...

Our sun has been recently making news headlines as we’re still in a strong solar cycle that has generated numerous solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

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

Solar storms pose a real threat to today’s technology. Even smaller ones can disrupt satellites, power grids and GPS systems.

1, 1859, amateur astronomers Richard Carrington ... These are immense eruptions of solar material that often follow a solar flare. Because the sun's equator rotates faster than its poles ...

NASA and NOAA are urging operators of critical systems to remain vigilant, with more solar activity expected as AR4087 moves further across the sun's surface.

The ancient event, over 500 times stronger than any modern storm, would be devastating were it to happen today.

Scientists have uncovered the strongest solar storm ever recorded, striking Earth in 12350 BC — 500 times stronger than any ...

Enormous solar flares —“coronal mass ejections” in ... Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name.

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