Are the Northern Lights dangerous? Solar storms in May and October saw intense displays of aurora borealis across the U.S.

Earth has just experienced its most powerful geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years after ... category as the infamous ...

A surprise announcement from scientists involved in monitoring the solar cycle has finally confirmed that the sun's most ...

The largest recorded geomagnetic storm, the Carrington Event in September 1859, took down parts of the recently created US telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph operators. In ...

similar in size to the sunspot that released the CME that caused the famous Carrington Event in 1859. The Carrington Event is ...

In 1859, human industrialization received a ... Image source: koya979 / Adobe Solar storms – often called geomagnetic storms – are very common on Earth. But when you have one of the magnitude ...

This stunning light show was triggered by a G4 geomagnetic storm caused by a plume of solar plasma ejected from the sun.

The first recorded solar flare was spotted in 1859. Coincidentally ... Here is a selection of others: November 1882: A geomagnetic storm caused auroral displays and affected telegraph systems ...

As well as causing the aurora borealis, these solar storms also have the potential to bring widespread disruption to Earth’s electrical systems — something that originally happened all the way back in ...

One way solar scientists measure the intensity of geomagnetic storms is ... such as the 1859 Carrington Event and the March 1989 storm (which caused a nine-hour outage of an electricity ...

The 1859 geomagnetic storm that overwhelmed world’s nascent telegraph system would cause trillions of damage to the U.S.

Geomagnetic storms—the strongest of which ... The worst case ever recorded was on Sept. 2, 1859, when the so-called Carrington Event—a massive solar flare—gave electric shocks to telegraph ...