No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

“Sunspots are there all the time, almost. You can see them with a small telescope,” University of Glasgow astrophysicist Hugh Hudson tells Popular Science. “Carrington was sketching the spots’ areas ...

Electromagnetic pulse weapons have the potential to knock out Western power supplies - Imaginima/Istockphoto One evening as the summer of 1859 drew to an end, a telegraph operator in Washington ...

From high-frequency trading to GPS-enabled logistics, cross-border payments to timestamped transactions, modern finance is dependent on satellites. The space domain underpins the invisible ...

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

When they met an obstacle, like the hand of a telegraph operator, they crashed through it — delivering a sharp shock. Papers in telegraph offices caught fire. Even with batteries disconnected, ...