According to NOAA, auroras may be visible across parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, thanks to elevated solar wind ...

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

NASA just launched rockets into the northern lights and captured the hidden electricity that powers them.

Summers in Saskatoon are short and warm, in stark contrast to its long, bitterly cold winters. Six summers ago, when I visited Saskatoon—the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan—in ...

Rally: The Ukrainian Centre is inviting Greater Sudburians to the Solidarity Rally for Ukraine on Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in front ...

Aurorasaurus has grown into a vibrant community of observers who help scientists track everything from sudden storms to rare colors. Some of the project’s most remarkable discoveries began with ...

NASA has pulled off a high-flying aurora investigation, launching three rockets into the glowing northern lights over Alaska. One mission targeted mysterious dark patches called black auroras, while ...

NASA launched two sounding rocket missions from Alaska to measure auroral electrical currents and study geomagnetic storm impacts on Earth’s upper atmosphere and space-based systems.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska– NASA is launching a rocket mission from Alaska as early as Saturday to study and help understand electrical circuitry underlying the aurora. The rocket mission will use a technique ...

The aurora borealis has been the ultimate atmospheric tease for ages. We knew what was behind it — high-energy particles slamming into Earth’s gases — but we couldn’t quite pin down the how.