The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Sunspot R3664 ...

During the 1859 solar storm, it was visible in the tropics. A newspaper in Hawai’i reported that the view in the Honolulu sky was almost as if they had been standing in the Arctic. Astronomers ...

This massive solar event set off the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in recent times, now widely known as the Carrington Event. Within roughly 18 hours, billions of particles emitted from ...

In fact, the biggest solar storm on record happened in 1859, during a solar maximum about the same size as the one we're entering, according to NASA.

Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name. The first one reached here Aug. 28, and the second one Sept. 1.

The largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event of 1859, may have been even rarer and more extreme than we thought, according to rediscovered magnetic data gathered at the time.

A solar storm the size of the Carrington Event could knock out the backbone of the Internet. ... On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically.

The solar storm of 1859 — which ice core samples from Antarctica proved was twice as big as any other solar storm in the last 500 years — is now known as the Carrington Event in his honor.

A solar storm from 14,300 years ago previews how Earth may one day plunge into darkness ... One particularly intense geomagnetic storm in 1859, the so-called Carrington Event, ...

An illustration shows solar flares on the surface of the sun. A scientist is predicting a massive solar storm could disrupt the internet for months sometime in the next decade.