For a few days, it sounded like a scene from a disaster movie: a “piece” of the sun appeared to shear away from its surface and whirl around the north pole, leaving even seasoned solar physicists ...

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Did you know? You don’t need to travel north to see the Aurora Borealis! Here are some tips for observing the Northern Lights in Hungary: ...

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

Earth is heating up, but it doesn't only face threats from climate change. The Sun also experiences 'weather' changes, and ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm last week brought rare and bright auroras, which were observed even in Florida and Mexico. Lisa Upton, a heliophysicist from the Institute of Southwestern Studies, told ...