"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

Earth's auroras result from solar winds interacting with the magnetosphere, creating light displays in vivid colors based on ...

Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly ...

SEATTLE — 2024 has been the year of the Aurora Borealis, and another spectacular show fired off around the globe recently.

The sky around Columbus erupted into a dazzling light show Thursday night as a solar storm made the northern lights visible ...

On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 10, the northern lights were visible in the skies above Bradford County. Also known as ...

A geomagnetic storm supercharged Earth's auroras, or the northern lights overnight on Thursday (Oct. 10), with aurora watchers in the U.S. and across the globe on hand to capture the stunning ...

The Space Weather Center has published a new alert for auroras, which may be visible Thursday night as far south as Alabama.

BepiColombo's 2023 flyby of Mercury's magnetosphere uncovered unexpected insights into plasma and surface composition.

This collision is what creates the northern lights. The storms carry electrically charged particles that collide with the Earth's magnetosphere and glow different colors when they shed energy ...

October 2024 started with a bang when two massive solar flares exploded from the sun's surface, sending coronal mass ejections (CME) directly towards Earth. The solar flares — given the names X7 and ...

A geomagnetic storm is a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment surrounding Earth.