On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was not from fireflies or a fireswamp.

Skywatchers are set to be dazzled by the northern lights over the coming hours, as a geomagnetic storm builds.

The northern lights should continue well into the weekend and may even reach down into the middle parts of the US.

Aurora chasers are on high alert for minor geomagnetic storm conditions from Jan. 24 through to Jan. 25. Northern lights ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission to the moon has captured stunning video of the Earth eclipsing the sun, as seen from space.

NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly ...

Whether you're in the heart of Scandinavia or the icy wilderness of North America, the Northern Lights are a show like no other.

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is known for a stunning spectacle of light in the night sky, but this near-Earth manifestation, which is caused by explosive activity on the sun and ...

Social media was abuzz after the astronaut, aboard the International Space Station (ISS ... A seventh user wrote, “Looks like AI. The Aurora Borealis ebbs and flows and moves around.

Glowing nighttime lights of an aurora seen from the International Space Station's cupola module on ... There are two types of auroras - Aurora Borealis, which means 'dawn of the north', and ...

Research: Automatic Detection and Classification of Aurora in THEMIS All-Sky Images. Image Credit: Manzooranmai / Shutterstock The aurora borealis, or northern lights ... by twin spacecraft studying ...