and Feb. 1. Keep up with current northern lights forecasts and geomagnetic storm warnings with our aurora forecast live blog. A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the ...

NASA The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—form when particles from the solar wind excite atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing them to glow. Aurorae manifest as ...

As someone studying STEVE, Gasque says that “observations of similar emissions in the aurora are fascinating.” The patchiness of the white northern lights, compared with the neat arc of STEVE ...

(NEXSTAR) – Sky gazers in several U.S. states could get a colorful glimpse of the northern lights as we enter the ... Vermont and Maine may also see the aurora. The sun sends more than heat ...

The effects of a coronal mass ejection—a bubble of plasma that bursts from the sun’s surface—will likely impact Earth’s magnetic field on Saturday, bringing the northern lights to several ...