Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology.

The Carrington Event - named after its discoverer, British astronomer Richard Carrington - spanned August to September 1859. A barrage of charged particles from the sun caused a flurry of activity in ...

Yesterday the sun released a huge solar flare, and it's heading toward Earth. It's nothing to worry about since it's nowhere near as large as the Carrington Event of 1859, but it is large enough ...

Another Carrington Event could severely impact space-based communications, navigation systems, even the power grid, knocking millions of people and businesses offline. But as Shawn Dahl, Service ...

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 — is now known as the Carrington Event in his honor.

If a solar storm similar to the “Carrington Event” were to occur today, US insurance industry losses could range anywhere between $71 billion to $433 billion, according to global insurance broker WTW.

Years ago, I read of the Carrington Event, a solar eruption in early September of 1859, during Solar Cycle 10.

HELSINKI, Finland — In the annals of astronomy, few events have captured the imagination quite like the Carrington Event of 1859. Named after the amateur astronomer Richard Carrington who first ...

The new spot spread out over a 6 th of the width of the Sun. At the start of September, it erupted. The sunspot of August 1859. Drawing from Carrington, RAS archives. Richard Hodgson in Highgate, ...

A geomagnetic storm on the scale of the Carrington Event could potentially knock out the backbone of the Internet.