I’ve travelled all the way to Norway and Iceland to see the Northern Lights, and this is finally where it’s happening,” ...

Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

Forecasts call for mild auroral activity Monday night that will weaken by Tuesday, when no states in the contiguous U.S. are ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts the Northern Lights will be visible across several ...

These forecasts are courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute and available online, along with more data, at The listings below will be updated and published weekly until ...

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 ...

Before a rare "blood moon" lunar eclipse amazed Americans on Thursday, the aurora borealis glowed bright green last weekend, dazzling viewers in Alaska, according to observers who captured the ...

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 transporting ...

Where will the northern lights be visible? According to NOAA, the northern lights will be strongest in Alaska on Sunday, although portions of Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota are within the ...

Two NASA rockets launched into auroras over Alaska last week to study the impact ... or brightening, of an aurora. The Malemute rocket also measured magnetic perturbations caused by the aurora.

"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 ...