As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.
According to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, the northern lights are caused by collisions between electrically-charged particles that enter Earth's atmosphere from ...
It was a biting 10 degrees Fahrenheit the first night I saw the northern lights. My mom, who’d agreed to join my winter aurora chase in Iceland, watched the swirls cozied up in the car—but I ...
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with Earth's atmosphere. When the sun releases a burst of energy, known as a solar wind or coronal ...
The northern lights are caused by the collision of electrically charged particles from space and molecules and gases — like oxygen and nitrogen. The collision, which happens when the ...