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 ...

This historically large sunspot, now 15 times wider than Earth, rivals the one linked to the colossal solar storm of 1859.

What If A Similar Event Happened Today? We are far more dependent on telecommunications technology than the people of 1859 were. A solar storm of the same intensity as the Carrington flare would ...

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.

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.

The most intense solar storm on record, the Carrington Event, occurred in 1859 ... Solar storm has potential to disrupt satellites, power grid. Don't expect anything like that this time around.

When a major solar storm hit in 1859, "telegraph systems worldwide went haywire." Here's what to know if such an event were to hit today – and how likely it is to happen.

Stronger solar storms have happened, and one caused havoc with one of the earliest electronic technologies. On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically.

The largest directly-observed solar storm was the Carrington Event, which erupted from a monstrous sunspot on the solar surface in 1859. This storm was not capable of producing the levels of ...