In a nutshell Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth ...

These findings suggest that even a medium-sized sunspot group triggered one of the most extreme magnetic storms in history. Hayakawa and his colleagues extended their investigations of the ...

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to shut down power grids on Earth, disrupt aircraft routes, global communications ...

Sunspots are highly magnetic regions of cooler material ... the most energetic coronal mass ejection in history — a show-stopping solar storm that had lit up the heavens with the aurora.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a powerful magnetic explosion providing new data on magnetic reconnection, important to ...

The magnetic field was originally thought to ... is thought to have been the strongest solar flare and geomagnetic storm in history, triggering fires in telegraph stations. "In that strongest ...

magnetic monster that socked Earth’s atmosphere on April 15. The result? A global rave in the sky. Experts at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center had warned of a G3-level storm for April 16 ...

However, at more than 23 hours, the main phase of the 13 March storm in the 1989 event was the longest in recorded history. Typical magnetic storms studied by scientists last an average of about ...