Without electricity, modern life as we know it would come to a halt. This video explores potential threats to the electricity grid, including EMP attacks and solar flares. NASA indicates a 12% ...

Damage from solar flares and CMEs vary. Strong solar flares can affect satellites. Powerful CMEs, however, interact with the Earth’s magnetic fields producing geomagnetic inducing currents (GICs).

Solar flares can impact radio communications and pose risks to spacecrafts and astronauts, according to NASA.

The emergence of the sun’s most powerful solar flare in six years back on Dec. 14 saw several parts of the United States impacted by shortwave radio blackouts. The incident was followed two ...

The explosive solar flare erupted from a hidden sunspot on May 16 at 12:43 pm EDT (1643 GMT) triggering widespread radio blackouts.

A colossal solar storm just blasted Earth, causing radio blackouts across five continents — and experts warn this fiery space weather may only be the beginning.

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation coming from the sun. They are the most powerful explosions in our solar system, according to NASA. The biggest solar flares are labeled as X-class flares.

A 2013 episode of "The Simpsons" referenced in a Facebook post makes no predictions about a "solar superstorm," as the post claims.

Solar flares can impact our communication systems, but the exact cause of the outage is still being investigated.

Solar flares can impact our communication systems, but the exact cause of the outage is still being investigated.