The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska ...

Forecasts call for mild auroral activity Monday night that will weaken by Tuesday, when no states in the contiguous U.S. are ...

Aurora? Sorta! The northern lights were trending on social media Thursday, but don't get your hopes up too much. Only a ...

Saturday night’s northern lights display follows “strong” radio blackouts on Friday, an event that NOAA said briefly ...

Any aurora chasers in Alaska likely did a double take this week when they witnessed some human-made additions to the dazzling Northern Lights overhead when teams launched two NASA-sounding rockets ...

These forecasts are courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute and available online, along with more data, at The listings below will be updated and published weekly until ...

It’s part of an experiment called “AWESOME,” which seeks to observe how auroras affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.

"The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1,000 km [621 miles] away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right," the agency explains on its ...

Some U.S. states could be treated to a northern lights display thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space forecasts.

NASA said vapor tracer payloads would be brightly visible in the Alaska sky after the launch of two rockets linked to its AWESOME mission on March 25, and sure enough, dedicated aurora buff Vincent ...