Space weather forecasting is decades behind Earth’s meteorology. Learn what makes auroras so unpredictable—and the real-time ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - After Thursday night’s northern lights as far south as the Grand Strand, you may be wondering how an aurora forms. It all starts with the sun and Earth’s magnetic field.

Natural phenomena have always fascinated human beings, and one of the most captivating is the Aurora. These stunning light displays appear in the Earth's northern hemisphere, and there have been ...

Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a new study, the physicists studied discrete aurora, a light-in-the-sky display that occurs mostly ...