A massive 2012 solar storm missed Earth by just over a week, which could have caused up to $3 trillion in damages.
In May 2024, part of the sun exploded. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because the plasma is conductive, ...
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...