What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection? And how do they lead to auroras?

Eruptions from sunspot AR3664 have created a geomagnetic storm that is delivering jaw-dropping northern lights on Earth. The ...

In every scientific discovery in the movies, a scientist observes something unexpected, scratches the side of his or her forehead and says "hmmmmm." In just such a moment in real life, scientists from ...

The world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, ...

NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission has taken its first measurements.

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

The northern lights may be visible as far south as Idaho, New York and South Dakota following strong solar storm activity.

Aurora’s Paramount Theatre announced its summer lineup consisting of sketch and stand-up comedy, tribute shows and a pair of ...