Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they lack magnetic fields. What happens there is very different from what happens on ...

Big fancy space telescopes are all well and good, but there’s something about being able to see things with your own ...

The brightest green aurorae on Venus were connected to coronal mass ejections – the explosive releases of plasma from the Sun – but the faintest of them can happen even from the regular solar ...

As we approach 2025, we may be surprised that the sky will offer patterns and spectacles very different from what we’ve seen ...

The researchers found that the aurorae had longitudinal structures that were aligned with magnetic field lines, and for the ...

This past year saw some significant solar activity. This was especially true during the month of May, which saw more than 350 ...

On the planetary side, UV astronomy has allowed us to observe active aurorae on Jupiter's poles and how these are influenced by solar storms on the sun. These active aurorae on Jupiter were ...

All the while, the Sun remains at solar maximum, hopefully producing several repeats of the stunning aurorae we enjoyed in 2024. Several meteor showers will enjoy excellent viewing prospects in ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky. The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport ...