She joined PEOPLE in 2021, but has eight years of experience working in digital publishing with a focus on entertainment and pop culture news. Getty A rare solar storm is headed towards Earth.

Solar storms can interfere with communications ... they typically recover after acute problems. A severe 2021 winter storm in Texas resulted in heavy power outages, introducing some volatility ...

Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class ...

A solar storm has a massive potential for destruction, especially when it comes to electronics and infrastructure. So, any big enough solar storm today, would have a catastrophic impact on the ...

Wind events affect solar power projects ... more than 500,000 electricity accounts lost power in the state during the storm. Those accounts were concentrated on the Atlantic coast, with large ...

It was a strong solar storm that recently made the Northern Lights visible across the Northern Hemisphere. While Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protect the planet from these solar events ...