Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some areas in Alaska and Canada could see a show in the night sky on July 23, while chances of catching the aurora in the northern ...

There’s nothing boring about the aurora borealis. As charged particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field, some of them travel along field lines and collide with other atoms in the ...

The northern lights may shine in the skies over Ohio this week as a pair of solar storms target the Earth. If the solar storm hits at that intensity, it could push the aurora into the northernmost ...

On nights when the magnetic field of the Earth is particularly active, a familiar boundary on an aurora map moves with a kind of mechanical precision: the viewing line shifts south, and people living ...

Some areas in Alaska and Canada could see a show in the night sky on July 23, while chances of catching the aurora in the northern contiguous U.S are lower. Parts of nearly a dozen states along the ...