The Space Weather Center has published a new alert for auroras, which may be visible Thursday night as far south as Alabama.

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And so the news was recently sprinkled with stories of the discovery of electron bursts beyond the edge of our solar system, caused by shock waves from coronal mass ejection (CME) from our Sun ...

We have links to tips for using your phone camera below. Earth is in the crosshairs of a coronal mass ejection (CME) tonight, ...

The purple and pink lights were visible due to a Solar Storm, or a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun on Tuesday, which ...

Here are just some of the photos that viewers sent in: The lights’ appearance comes from a “massive” solar flare that was ...

Caption The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured these image of a coronal mass ejection, erupting on the left side of the sun early in the morning of Jan 31, 2013, as it was moving ...

Best viewable between 11pm and 2am, the lights are caused by the interaction between charged particles from a 'coronal mass ejection' – a violent expulsion from the sun – with atoms in Earth's ...

NASA, NOAA and SpaceWeather say a coronal mass ejection will reach Earth this week. It has the potential to knock out communications in some parts of the world. Every few centuries the Sun blasts ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon ...

There is a chance of enhanced auroral activity and aurora sightings across Scotland and similar latitudes into 02 Oct due to the possible arrival of the 29 Sep coronal mass ejection,' the Met ...

Caption A number of NASA instruments captured detailed images of this coronal mass ejection on Aug. 31, 2012. Although CMEs can damage sensitive technological systems, this one just struck a ...