Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Some U.S. states could be treated with a northern lights display due a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space ...

A new study reports that researchers have successfully used a meticulously designed cylinder to harness electricity as it ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

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

After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

The Northern Lights may be visible in the U.S. this weekend and into next week when a cloud of charged particles from the sun arrives at Earth just as our planet's magnetic field is at its weakest.