A recent coronal mass ejection may disrupt Earth’s geomagnetic field on Friday, potentially making the aurora borealis ...

This edition of the northern lights is brought to you by a pair of coronal mass ejections that erupted on New Year's Day.

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

Earth is facing a double coronal mass ejection impact today, January 3, 2026, potentially triggering G2-class geomagnetic ...

When these charged particles reach Earth, they can cause geomagnetic storms that lead to the stunning displays of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. While this particular CME is expected to ...

The northern lights danced across the sky amidst a strong geomagnetic storm that impacted Earth on Wednesday, Nov. 12. It was ...

Nature offers many dazzling displays, from jagged flashes of lightning to radiant sunsets. But perhaps one of the most elusive natural phenomena is the shimmering waves of green, pink, and red dancing ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star—a ...

A coronal mass ejection could knock out power and disrupt communication on Earth Dan Falk - Science Correspondent A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2013. NASA In August of 1859, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The aurora borealis glows in shades of green, pink, and ...