Latest about aurora
Sunspot sends off double flare, as solar activity ramps up
A restless sunspot sent off a double solar flare on Monday (April 25), temporarily disrupting some radio communications in Asia and Australia.
Earliest documented aurora found in ancient Chinese text
The oldest documented observation of an aurora may be in an ancient Chinese text.
New swarms of sunspots are so gigantic they could devour Earth whole
Two immense swarms of sunspots have popped into view on the surface of the sun, hinting at the increased possibilities of vivid auroras and potentially damaging solar flares over the months to come.
Shimmering 'night spiral' captured above Hawaii is actually a dying SpaceX rocket
The descent looked like a 'flying whirlpool' over Hawaii.
Stunning aurora glow above Iceland after 'dead' sunspot erupts
A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week triggered stunning aurora above Iceland.
Sudden eruption from 'dead' sunspot could bring auroras as far south as New York
After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized auroras may stretch even farther south than usual.
Chinese rocket photobombs aurora with spinning orb of light
A spinning orb of light that slowly moved across the sky in Alaska on March 29 was actually frozen fuel left by a Chinese rocket, according to experts.
A 12,000-mile-deep 'canyon of fire' has opened on the sun, spitting intense solar wind toward Earth
Filaments of plasma escaped from a fiery canyon that opened on the sun's surface on Sunday (April 3) and might bring more auroras to Earth later this week.
