Imagine waking up to a world where GPS stops working.

Power grids begin failing.

Satellites malfunction.

Radio communications disappear.

Flights are disrupted.

And the technology modern society depends on suddenly becomes unreliable.

The cause isn't a war or a cyberattack.

It's the Sun.

In The Solar Storm That Could Shut Down Modern Life, we explore the science behind extreme solar storms, how eruptions from the Sun can reach Earth, and why a sufficiently powerful event could disrupt some of the systems modern civilization relies on.

The Sun constantly releases streams of charged particles and magnetic energy. Occasionally, enormous eruptions send waves of energy and plasma toward Earth.

When these disturbances interact with Earth's magnetic field, they can trigger a  ...