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 ...

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

People in Alaska will have the best view, as the strongest part of the aurora is set to slice right through the central and ...

A period of peak magnetic storms on the sun could lead to another show of northern lights on Earth on Saturday and Sunday, ...

If using a regular camera, National Geographic suggests using wide-angle lenses, an aperture or F-stop of four or less and a ...

NASA is set to kick off an important mission in Alaska, aiming to comprehend how auroral substorms impact the Earth’s upper ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF ... “Our experiment asks the question, when the aurora goes berserk and dumps a bunch of heat in the atmosphere, how much of that heat is spent ...