Thanks to the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft XMM-Newton, astronomers have seen a powerful explosion of plasma erupting from a distant star for the first time. We have seen (and felt) plenty of ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

Displays of the Northern Lights this close to the March Equinox sometimes explode with light and colour!

Wisconsin's night sky glowing with the Northern Lights during a geomagnetic storm. (Photo by Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Northern Lights may be visible in the U.S. this weekend, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three solar flares are barreling toward Earth and they could create a northern lights show to be remembered Tuesday night. These ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a large-scale eruptive solar phenomenon in which magnetized plasma from the Sun’s corona is expelled into interplanetary space, typically associated with magnetic ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, January 23 at 11 a.m. for a virtual talk by Chip Manchester Abstract: Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are magnetically driven ...