From there, they could estimate just how powerful that solar event was. The strength of these storms is measured in a unit known as nanoteslas. Modern equipment has found that highly powerful solar ...

The Strongest Solar Storm Ever Was 500 Times More Powerful Than Anything We’ve Seen in Modern Times. It Left Its Mark in a 14,000-Year-Old Tree. Story by Tibi Puiu • 1d.

New research has pinpointed the exact date when the strongest ever solar particle storm hit the Earth. This identification of the event, which occurred in 12,350 B.C., rewrites what scientists ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

The most intense event on record is the January 20, 2005, solar storm. If you were on a plane over the southern polar regions (which received a good chunk of that radiation), you’d have received ...

Hurricane Milton, which hit Category 5 strength yesterday, is now the fifth most powerful storm by pressure ever seen in the Atlantic. Milton hit wind speeds as high as 180 mph on Monday evening ...

Solar storms batter Earth every year, creating the occasional aurora and sometimes even paralyzing power grids. But these common phenomena pale in comparison to a monstrous event that inundated the ...

KOCO 5 Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane says the threat for Wednesday evening and night includes winds of 50 to 60 mph and hail ...