Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the most powerful solar storm ever, resetting what we know about space weather limits.

That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next strongest was the 1859 Carrington Event. It was spurred by a huge solar flare that triggered a powerful geomagnetic storm on Earth.

1, 1859, amateur astronomers Richard Carrington ... NASA spacecraft successfully completes closest-ever approach to the sun The solar storm knocked out GPS equipment on farms — and it could ...

Other solar storms in recent history show us just how much damage the sun's outbursts can cause here on Earth. The 1859 Carrington Event took down telegraph wires all over the world. The Halloween ...

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 ebb and ...

Solar particle storms are rare, but when they occur, they bombard Earth with an enormous amount of high-energy particles. In comparison, the famous Carrington event in 1859 was a different kind of ...