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

In late August and early September 1859, two geomagnetic solar superstorms walloped our ... Pantagraph in its lengthy account of the first superstorm. And the lightshow was no less spectacular ...

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

A first-of its-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for severe ...

A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm ...

Still, the Gannon Storm was nowhere near as potent as the most energetic solar storm to take place in recorded history — the 1859 Carrington Event. Since the current solar cycle — the 11-year ...

WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot.

The largest was a “solar superstorm” that hypothetically caused an internet apocalypse, disrupted the US power grid, and caused blackouts across the Eastern seaboard that lasted for weeks ...

Minute-by-minute, what would happen if a solar SUPERSTORM hit Earth - as scientists warn one could strike us 'at any moment' The exercise lasted two days, and asked the participants to pretend ...