In May 2024, the skies above Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands were set alight by an extraordinary auroral display, unlike anything scientists had observed before. This event, driven by a powerful ...

Top image shows the normal proton aurora formation mechanism first discovered in 2018. White lines show that solar wind protons traveling away from the Sun are normally swept around the planet by the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A geomagnetic storm is expected to bring a chance to see the northern lights to Michigan, but clouds may block the show. Space weather forecasts are not nearly as accurate ...

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are a mesmerizing celestial occurrence in the Arctic regions. Although it displays the creative talent of nature, this ethereal display is ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. LU Quanming and Prof. GAO Xinliang from the School of Earth and Space Sciences and the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory at the University of Science and ...

A critical ingredient for auroras exists much higher in space than previously thought, according to new research in the journal Scientific Reports. The dazzling light displays in the polar night skies ...