A northern lights forecast for Thursday night has a Kp index of four on a scale of nine, suggesting the aurora borealis will be seen farther from the poles and be “quite pleasing to look at ...

Parts of Washington, northern Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, northern Minnesota and Upper Michigan have a low chance of seeing the aurora borealis, whereas most of northern Canada and Alaska have ...

On Friday night, the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, were visible in parts of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota and more states across the U.S. The ...

A striking time-lapse video features the ISS flying above cities at night before passing over a stunning aurora.

The video, viewable on X, is about 50 seconds long. It shows the ISS orbiting around Earth. It's a cool shot all on its own, ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit -- NASA’s oldest active astronaut at 69 -- arrived at the station last week on his fourth trip to ...

Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11. The space agency blasted three sounding rockets above central and northern ...

Aurora is a shifting pattern of light emitted from atoms and molecules in the atmosphere after they have been ionized by collisions with charged particles from the sun. The radiation can be seen ...