The Sun's Fury: How Solar Storms Threaten Our High Tech Existence A recent study on the November 2025 solar superstorm highlighted the fragility of our modern world in the face of space weather.
The storm caused a GPS glitch severe enough to crash self driving cars, disrupting precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles across the United States.
The science behind solar storms is well understood: when the Sun unleashes a burst of radiation and charged particles, it overloads and distorts the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing GPS radio signals to slow and bend.