What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...

Last week, the sun spat out the strongest ... and yet there was a current upon it during the entire day." So what happened? Today, experts believe that the 1859 geomagnetic storm, now known as the ...

It produced solar particles 500 times greater than the most intense solar particle storm recorded by modern satellites in ...

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Some food experiences are worth putting miles on your odometer, and the breakfast at Doo-Dah Diner in Wichita, Kansas, makes a compelling case for clearing your schedule and hitting the highway. This ...

Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of sunspots and other solar activity.

There have never been so many satellites orbiting Earth as there are today, thanks in part to the launch of mega ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.