“Sunspots are there all the time, almost. You can see them with a small telescope,” University of Glasgow astrophysicist Hugh Hudson tells Popular Science. “Carrington was sketching the spots’ areas ...

WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intense white light burst from the sun's surface. He had ...

Historical records, including the Carrington Event (1859) and evidence from ice core samples (Miyake Event, ~774 AD), demonstrate the occurrence of significant geomagnetic storms, with estimates ...

Remember the gorgeous auroras so many of us enjoyed back in May? Those are caused by intense storms on the surface of the sun, triggered by criss crossing of the sun’s magnetic fields. The most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A massive solar particle storm during the last Ice Age was ...

(NEXSTAR) – Coronal mass ejections — or explosive accelerations of plasma and magnetic material from the Sun — can be strong enough to disturb the Earth’s magnetosphere, producing geomagnetic storms ...

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...