As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

You may have noticed that more auroras have been visible in recent years, including from lower latitudes. Here's why the northern lights have been amped up lately.

The dazzling light show is due to a geomagnetic storm - a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field caused by a violent ejection ...

Years Ago Assyrians Recorded the Earliest ‘Magic of the Auroras’ While Skygazing on Stone Tablets Humans spent many of their ...

During the solar maximum, the Sun’s surface has the most number of sunspots — small, dark and cooler areas where the magnetic field is particularly strong. During the solar minimum, the Sun has the ...

For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds ...

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa may have the potential to disturb Earth’s magnetic ...

On a dynamic planet like Earth, it can be easy for drivers of change to go unnoticed – but scientists have now established and investigated an unexpected link between the Sun and our homeworld.

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

In a model with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria we add trade in assets that pay based on the realization of a sunspot. Asset trading restricts the equilibrium set in a way that raises welfare by ...

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