The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

A solar storm occurs when the magnetic fields of the sun get twisted enough from its rotation that they snap. When this happens, they release massive amounts of energy into space. We are not in direct ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...