A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

Researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida are part of a team studying the dazzling phenomenon.

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds.

The Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, may be visible in more than a dozen U.S. states Tuesday, December 9, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space ...

NOAA forecasters expect more solar flares and ongoing geomagnetic activity throughout the rest of the month and early March ...

NASA is launching a rocket mission from Alaska as early as Saturday to study and help understand electrical circuitry underlying the aurora. The rocket mission will use a technique similar to how a CT ...

The sun unleashed a M8.1 solar flare over the weekend, leading NASA to issue a rare G3 geomagnetic solar storm watch, with impacts from Sunday's "full-halo coronal mass ejection" expected to cause ...

A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and ...

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...