A rare, violent solar storm could knock out vulnerable satellite systems and leave ships stranded without navigation, ...

Displays of Northern Lights are possible overnight on Tuesday, March 4, into Wednesday, March 5, in some northerly U.S.

Lloyd’s of London chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown has said that the “risk posed by space weather presents a significant threat ...

For extreme solar weather, our high-water mark is often the Carrington Event of 1859: a powerful solar storm named after Richard Carrington, an English astronomer who saw the flare that caused it ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to experience them ...

On average, there are 4 occurrences of G5 geomagnetic storms per solar cycle, which is about 0.1 percent of the ... including the Carrington Event of 1859. The Carrington Event, occurring in the ...

A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of ...