Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

Another geomagnetic storm will expand visibility of the aurora borealis. Here's how the celestial phenomenon works and where ...

A strong solar flare-up could bring auroras to the far north, and might even be visible in some U.S. states on Thursday.

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

The lowest category of storm on a five-point scale of NOAA is G1, which can generate significant auroras in far north and ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

Coronal mass ejections are powerful releases of plasma, electrically charged particles from the Sun. The Sun is constantly ...

Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of northern lights across ...

Sunspot AR3229 erupted with an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

A New Mexico State University astronomer and her team can now predict space weather in the sweet spot between two extremes of ...