Aurora borealis is best seen between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, according to NOAA, which recommends traveling to a high ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

That's because the Northern Lights look set to appear in the coming days. A surge in solar activity is expected to bring this ...

Fast solar winds are heading to the UK, bringing with them an increased chance of viewing the Northern Lights. The ...

On Valentine's Day (February 14), Met Office maps show solar activity is slightly weaker than the night before, but Northern parts of the UK have a chance to see the Northern Lights from around 9pm ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X1.1-class solar flare in multiple wavelengths. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," ...

Aspiring viewers of the Northern Lights are encouraged to go as far north as possible, away from light pollution, and face ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.