It took 25,000 supercomputer processors and 11 days to calculate the motions of 180 billion simulated electromagnetic particles in space...

Alaska residents in the mainly Native town of Venetie have been offered $1,200 for information leading to a piece of fallen rocket and $500 for nose cones, doors, payloads and othe...

What NASA knows as sunspot 1402 spat out an X2-class solar flare on January 27, more powerful than the January 23 one that set the northern lights ablaze as far south as Ireland...

The radiation storm that sent debris rocketing toward Earth on January 23 is giving aurora borealis watchers a stunning light show as far south as Scotland and England and promises...

All over the north for the past few days, the recent plasma burst from the sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) has produced some spectacular aurora borealis sightings...

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The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, generally stay, well, north—up near the Arctic Circle, in fact...

The spring equinox has just passed, marking the start of prime viewing time for the aurora borealis, the curtains of light that dance above the Arctic and antarctic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSFAbATPvk The days are lengthening, making these weeks the best ones for viewing the aurora borealis. In this video, NASA scientists explain why.