Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially ... storm warnings with our aurora ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field.The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the upper atmosphere, such as oxygen and nitrogen, transferring energy ...

"It was a party atmosphere," he said ... But space weather -- like Earth's weather -- is not an "exact art," he emphasised. And if there is an aurora lighting up the sky nearby, it is worth ...

The lights move and change shape and color. Scientists attribute their vibrant colors to excited gases emitted in Earth's atmosphere; oxygen gives off the green color of the aurora. What Causes The ...

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about ... that the aurora phenomenon can create what we call gravity waves, which then propagate downward into the atmosphere." ...

Few sky sights have attracted as much attention as the colorful, undulating lights known as the aurora ... solar particles and the gases in Earth’s upper atmosphere – which results in more ...

Keep up with current northern lights forecasts and geomagnetic storm warnings with our aurora ... in the sun's atmosphere is unleashing a stream of fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially ...