Topic: solar storm

The Northern Lights are seen above the Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point Lookout in the early morning hours of May 11, 2024 in Latourell, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Geomagnetic storm to bring auroras again

Matthew Rozsa
Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) illuminate the sky of San Francisco North Bay as seen from China Camp Beach in San Rafael, California, United States on May 11, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Phone cameras bring auroras to life

Griffin Eckstein
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Massive solar storm could cause outages

Rae Hodge
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Solar storms could cause major damage

Matthew Rozsa
(NASA/SDO/Goddard)

Sarah Gray