Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth around 12,350 BC, ...

Steiger fell in love with lake effect snow as an undergraduate at SUNY Oswego. Later, while attending graduate school in Texas, he fell in love with thunderstorms. The LEE project is a perfect ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence of a colossal solar storm that struck Earth over 14,000 years ago, dwarfing the ...

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

Today's tech-driven world faces an outsize risk from solar storms, with a 14,000-year-old solar storm setting our computerised world up for disaster. The event may cause catastrophic damage to ...

Ottawa stopped measuring sediment years ago, throwing the future of flood defences, farmland, cities and delta health into ...

New findings suggest that a mysterious solar event roughly 500 times more powerful than any recorded by scientists struck the ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

To validate their method, the USTC team joined forces with glaciologists Professor Michael Bender and Dr. Sarah Shackleton from Princeton University. Together, they analyzed two 1-kilogram ice samples ...

At the end of the last ice age, the Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm ever known. If something similar occurred ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in ...