The largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event of 1859, may have been even rarer and more extreme than we thought, according to rediscovered magnetic data gathered at the time.

It was known as “the week the sun touched the earth.” In late August and early September 1859, two geomagnetic solar superstorms walloped our planet, illuminating the nighttime sky of ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North America stopped working and started sparking, leading to fires in some ...

A drawing of the aurora observed from Nagoya, Japan, on September 17, 1770. ... Rumors of a strange and terrifying event swept Japan in early September 1859.

"As far as we know, the last time sky watchers saw auroras in the area was during the Carrington Event of September 1859, when auroras were sighted from a ship in the Coral Sea," Hisashi Hayakawa ...