A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of ...

The Carrington Event of 1859 is the largest recorded account of a geomagnetic storm, but it is not an isolated event. Geomagnetic storms have been recorded since the early 19th century ...

Activity on the sun's surface reached its "solar maximum" last October and scientists at NASA believe that increased activity ...

A Carrington-class storm could fry more transformers ... One on the order of the 1859 event could take out the entire grid, sending hundreds of millions of people back to a preelectric way of ...

But none of those storms come close to the scale of the 1859 monster. If a Carrington event happened today, the world would likely have to deal with the simultaneous loss of GPS, cell phone ...

One of the most notable historical geomagnetic storms is the Carrington event of 1859, which is often cited as the most intense geomagnetic storm on record. Recent studies have utilized historical ...

Recently, the colossal sunspot AR3664 has drawn attention for its immense size, reaching proportions comparable to the legendary Carrington sunspot of 1859. NASA has released a composite image ...