High-energy particles from solar flares can disable satellite electronics, distort signals, or even knock satellites out of orbit. The Starlink incident of 2022 demonstrated this risk.

The May solar superstorm that set the night sky around the world ablaze with colorful aurora displays also triggered chaos in orbit as thousands of satellites had to maneuver at the same time to ...

A rare, violent solar storm could knock out vulnerable satellite systems and leave ships stranded without navigation, ...

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The flare Carrington had observed heralded a solar superstorm—an enormous electromagnetic outburst that sent billions of tons of charged particles hurtling toward Earth. (Another amateur English ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Solar ‘superstorm’ missed Earth in 2012 — but another could strike Two years ago, the worst solar storm in almost two centuries tore through Earth's orbit. Luckily, the storm's path just ...