Space tourism from Sweden to start in 2012
Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.
View ArticleCassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and...
View ArticleA decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D
Today (September 1), space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by 'Cluster', a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the...
View ArticleNorthern Lights in the classroom
A new model created by Lancaster University space scientist Dr Jim Wild is bringing the experience of the Northern Lights into the classroom.
View ArticleCanadian space agency beams northern lights over Web
Skywatchers can turn their gaze to a computer for a glimpse of the northern lights: the Canadian Space Agency on Monday launched an online observatory streaming the aurora borealis live over the Internet.
View ArticleNorthern Lights hit 100-year low point: Finnish researchers
The Northern Lights have petered out during the second half of this decade, becoming rarer than at any other time in more than a century, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said Tuesday.
View ArticleStorm to bring Northern Lights to Britain
Britain should experience spectacular Northern Lights displays from Thursday due to a large solar storm which could disrupt communication networks, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said.
View ArticleGeomagnetic storm subsiding
A geomagnetic storm that sparked auroras around the Arctic Circle and sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the United States on April 12, 2011 is subsiding. NOAA forecasters...
View ArticleGetting ready for the next big solar storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't...
View ArticleForecasters: New solar flare won't cause problems
(AP) -- Forecasters say a new solar flare should provide only a glancing blow on Earth on Friday and is unlikely to cause any problems.
View ArticleScientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth
With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen gas....
View ArticleNorthern lights take unusual trip down south
A baffling solar storm pulled colorful northern lights unusually far south, surprising space weather experts.
View ArticleThe Northern Lights dance over northern England
(AP) -- The Northern Lights have lit up the skies above Scotland, northern England and northern parts of Ireland after the biggest solar storm in more than six years bombarded Earth with radiation.
View ArticleSolar storm expected to fire up northern lights
Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years.
View ArticleSolar storm sparks dazzling northern lights
A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an ever-changing and awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday.
View ArticlePlasmas torn apart: Physicists make discovery that hints at origin of...
January saw the biggest solar storm since 2005, generating some of the most dazzling northern lights in recent memory.
View ArticleScientists launch rocket into aurora
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full sky shimmering in green aurora, Saturday night (Feb. 18, 2012) a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from the University of...
View ArticleSolar storm not nearly as bad as could have been (Update 2)
Our high-tech world seems to have weathered a solar storm that was still showing signs of life late Thursday.
View ArticleEU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather
The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the...
View ArticleScudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights
(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.
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