A solar storm is projected to impact Earth this Saturday, potentially bringing with it a dazzling celestial light show – and a few crucial questions about our increasingly connected world. While the ...

Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last ...

On the evening of Aug. 28, 1859, a telegraph in New York took on a life of its own. As its operator J. C. Crosson fought to transmit messages, the current fluctuated wildly. The battery powering ...

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.

Neither the May eruption nor this week’s is as severe as the Carrington Event, a solar storm that hit Earth in 1859, disrupting telegraph stations, or another that in 1989 caused a nine-hour ...

For instance, one of the strongest solar storms in documented history, which occurred in 1859, caused telegraph systems across Europe and North America to malfunction and spark into flames. open ...

In 1859, a severe solar storm triggered auroras as far south as Hawaii and caught telegraph lines on fire in a rare event. And a 1972 solar storm may have detonated magnetic U.S. sea mines off the ...

In 1859, a severe solar storm triggered auroras as far south as Hawaii and caught telegraph lines on fire in a rare event. And a 1972 solar storm may have detonated magnetic U.S. sea mines off the ...

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.

In 1859, a severe solar storm triggered auroras as far south as Hawaii and caught telegraph lines on fire in a rare event. And a 1972 solar storm may have detonated magnetic U.S. sea mines off the ...

In 1859, a severe solar storm triggered auroras as far south as Hawaii and caught telegraph lines on fire in a rare event. And a 1972 solar storm may have detonated magnetic U.S. sea mines off the ...