Just what the lights are, nobody is certain, but they have been observed, photographed and videoed by at least three local residents in the past year. One witness, Mary Bayliss, reported seeing ...

An artist's impression of a coronal mass ejection on a star Olena Shmahalo / Callingham et al. For the first time, astronomers confirmed a massive expulsion of plasma from a star other than the sun. A ...

It’s incredible to think that the sun, roughly 93 million miles away, can mess with our power grids here on Earth and paint our night skies with ribbons of green and red. But that’s exactly what ...

Space weather experts are monitoring for the potential of a so-called "cannibal geomagnetic storm" Wednesday, which could produce an even more brilliant display of the Northern Lights which dazzled ...

The northern lights dazzled Americans across much of the Lower 48 on Tuesday night, caused by a geomagnetic storm that reached G4 intensity. According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, ...

A severe geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field on Wednesday, which could cause widespread disruption to infrastructure technology and make northern lights visible for much of the ...

A cloud of plasma ejected by a star 130 light years away has been detected by a radio telescope on Earth, giving astronomers their first definitive observation of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a ...

The first confirmed sighting of a giant explosion on a nearby star has been spotted by astronomers. They observed an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star – a huge burst ...