The May 2025 storm remains the undisputed heavyweight of the current solar cycle. It was the only storm to officially reach ...

Sky watchers across America are preparing for what could be one of the most spectacular aurora displays of the year, as federal weather officials issue an expanded Northern Lights forecast covering an ...

ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has detected an aurora above the planet for the first time. This type of aurora has never previously been observed in the solar system. Images taken earlier on the ...

Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field like Earth so its aurorae are quite unique. They are known as proton aurorae and they are caused by the protons in the solar wind stealing electrons in the bowshock ...

The Institute for Fusion Science installed the Hyperspectral Camera for Auroral Imaging (HySCAI) in Kiruna, Sweden, in May 2023 and commenced full-scale observations in September of the same year. A ...

NASA's MAVEN and the United Arab Emirates' EMM missions have released joint observations of dynamic proton aurora events at Mars. By combining the observations, scientists determined that what they ...

As the sun rises in the morning, the sunlit portion of the aurora begins at high altitudes and gradually spreads downward over time. Auroras: Auroras are natural phenomena where electrons from space ...

Alien aurora: Images of the Martian sky with aurora on sol 1094 (left) and on a reference sol without aurora (right). Both images show the sky contrasted against nearby terrain. The bright object in ...

If you missed seeing the northern lights on Wednesday, don’t worry: So did probably everyone else in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. But folks in the northern tiers of both states may have another slim ...