A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

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

Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.

The beauty of the aurora borealis lies in its formation, which occurs when charged ... These particles travel to Earth in the form of solar wind—streams of energized particles emitted from ...

As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

It’s a CME’s effect on the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field that causes a geomagnetic storm and strong aurora. Why This Week’s Equinox Is Critical A CME created by an M-class solar ...

2022 — Researchers have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. The physicists report discrete aurora form through the interaction of the solar wind and the crust at Mars' southern ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...

to cause the beautiful aurora that we see in the sky at night. What happens when the solar winds blow far into space? The solar wind blows away from the sun at huge speeds, to a distance of about ...

First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

Despite the higher prediction, Clarke says that the aurora should mostly cover Canada and not the US, but does note that "what happens depends on the solar wind, and (the Kp index) are just ...