The best places to see the auroras, especially on Tuesday night, will be across central regions of the country — Labrador, ...

According to Dr. Schmoll, the Earth's magnetic field has a north and south pole, just like any magnet. The sun does as well.

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

NASA’s upcoming EZIE mission will use three small satellites to study electrojets — powerful electrical currents in the upper atmosphere linked to auroras. These mysterious currents influence ...

Solar wind particles are deflected along magnetic field lines that run parallel to ... which is centred around the geomagnetic poles rather than the geographical poles. The geomagnetic North Pole is ...

Since solar maximum occurs roughly every 11 years, another set of oppositely polarized bands appears near the poles ... by ...

From the United States to parts of Europe and even regions far from the poles, these glowing ribbons ... when the Sun releases bursts of plasma and magnetic energy, called coronal mass ejections ...