The spectacular natural phenomenon paints the skies around the North Pole with glowing multi-colored lights - follow our top ...

NASA The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—form when particles from the solar wind excite atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing them to glow. Aurorae manifest as ...

Although less likely, viewers in South Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine may also see the aurora. The sun sends more than heat and light to Earth — it sends energy ...