The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

THE NORTHERN Lights are set to dazzle parts of the UK tonight, with the Met Office issuing a 90 per cent chance alert. Northern regions are expected to be able to witness the phenomenon late on ...

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

Space experts are watching a sunspot region known as AR4046 which recently produced a significant solar flare and coronal mass ejection that had the potential to be as significant as the solar storm ...

Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole ... that’s called a geomagnetic storm. The stronger the storm, the stronger the aurora. But those storms can have ...

"Aurora is likely to be visible from Scotland and similar geomagnetic latitudes ... accelerating down towards the north pole into the atmosphere. This is why most of the aurora activity is ...

Skywatchers are in for a real treat tonight and throughout the week thanks to a series of geomagnetic storms scheduled to ...

The geomagnetic North Pole is currently located at approximately 80 degrees north, near Ellesmere Island in Canada. For this reason, auroras extend farther south in North America than in Europe.

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

During the winter and summer months, half of the Earth is tilted away from the sun, therefore making aurora borealis less likely (unless the geomagnetic ... has a north and south pole, just ...