ET, sunspot region 4114 released an X.12 class solar flare that caused a radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean, including ...

But now, scientists have decoded its meaning. The researchers claim the event was the most powerful solar particle storm ever known. “This event establishes a new worst-case scenario,” said ...

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According to spaceweather.com, the sunspot region 4114 released multiple flares within 24 hours, but they were in the M-class ...

It has now been identified as the most powerful solar particle storm known to date—a colossal space weather storm that struck Earth 14,300 years ago. This recent finding expands the timeline and ...

The famous Carrington event, the most powerful on record, was not accompanied by a solar particle storm, so it is difficult to compare the two. There is a different comparison that was fundamental ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to ...

The northern lights — also called aurora borealis — could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, ...

The sun has unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year ... X-class flares are the most intense in the solar storm scale — capable of disrupting communications, damaging satellites ...

But these common phenomena pale in comparison to a monstrous event that inundated the planet with particles from the Sun around 14,300 years ago, identified as the strongest solar storm ever recorded ...

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