In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

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

Scientists have uncovered the strongest solar storm ever recorded, striking Earth in 12350 BC — 500 times stronger than any ...

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

Learn about the strongest solar storm to ever strike Earth, occurring around 14,300 years ago during the last Ice Age.

The latest findings, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, confirm that the extreme event from 14,300 ...

The famous Carrington event, the most powerful on record, was not accompanied by a solar particle storm, so it is difficult ...

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

Beneath Antarctica’s thick ice lies a secret landscape shaped by ancient forces. New research is helping uncover what’s been ...

Adina Paytan, a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science Department and the Institute of Marine Science, has been awarded the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award by the ...