Space NASA: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth (Video) by Press on May 23, 2016 Press Author More in Space: How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades May 16, 2024 Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape January 12, 2023 Christmas Launch Now for the James Webb Space Telescope December 21, 2021 Greenbelt, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2016. Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it.