Northern lights in Lake Lappajärvi, Finland.
Santeri Viinamäki
As the Earth’s magnetic north pole heads towards Siberia, concerns have been raised that the northern lights could move with it.
Lagrange mission.
ESA/A. Baker
The Lagrange mission could greatly improve forecasts of space weather.
A magical sight.
Ronel Reyes/Flickr.
The northern lights might look like magic, but they can actually be explained by science – here’s how.
A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2012.
NASA
The wired Earth of the 21st century is at the mercy of the volatile nature of the sun.
A huge solar flare flashes in the middle of the sun on Sept. 6, 2017. A separate image of the Earth provides scale.
NASA/GSFC/SDO
At a time in the sun’s cycle when space weather experts expect less solar activity, our star is going bonkers with solar flares and coronal mass ejections. What effects will Earth feel?
The aurora Steve.
Rémi Farvacque/Alberta Aurora Chasers (facebook)
Scientists still don’t know what caused the mysterious phenomenon ‘Steve’.
Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view. Encircling the planet and inner rings is the much more extended E-ring.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
With the probe now on its ‘Grand Finale,’ a Cassini team member describes the amazing discoveries it made about the ringed planet and its many moons.