Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the ...

Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.

SOME preliminary results have been obtained from an investigation being undertaken at College, Alaska, concerning the correspondence of the Earth's magnetic field micropulsations 1 with pulsating ...

The Sun has started spooky season with a bang, letting loose on October 1 with a colossal flare and coronal mass ejection ...

There may be more northern lights – or aurora borealis – sightings this spring. As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and ...

The whole dome of night sky was awash with color: cascades of yellow-green and blushes of crimson fanning from a darker point high overhead. As they fell in broad rays, they shifted and changed in ...

A solar storm hit Earth on Thursday and brought beautiful displays of the northern lights to dark skies farther south than ...

The northern lights surprise stargazers by appearing in many forms—from patches or scattered clouds, to streamers, arcs, rippling or dancing curtains. The lights move and change shape and color.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every second, phenomena known as "auroral electrojets" that stem from solar activity push ...

Aurora is a shifting pattern of light emitted from atoms and molecules in the atmosphere after they have been ionized by collisions with charged particles from the sun. The radiation can be seen ...

Your browser does not support the video element. A giant, black region of the sun — called a coronal hole — was spotted on Monday by NASA's Solar Dynamics ...