The northern lights could be visible on New Year's Eve. See how far south the phenomenon could be visible.

But why this so-called "aurora lag"? Brekke explains one reason is that Earth-directed coronal holes are more frequent in the decaying phase and the solar minimum period. Coronal holes are dark ...

The upshot is that while aurora became visible on May 10 at the onset of darkness about 11 o’clock, it’s going to be more like midnight in June before the night skies are dark enough at mid ...

Aurora chasers at high latitudes may be in for ... Coronal holes appear as dark areas in the sun's corona — the outer atmosphere — when viewed in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray ...

North Yorkshire's internationally recognised dark skies will be better protected by a £4m plan to upgrade thousands of ...

Get as far away from city lights as possible to maximize your chances of seeing the aurora because they’re more impressive in a dark sky. Use a light pollution map or the Dark Sky Place finder ...

In the dark early morning sky ... camera's screen while the continuous shooting mode was used. The low-latitude aurora was a result of the massive solar flare explosion on the sun, which occurred ...

The best time to see an aurora is when it's dark out, usually between an hour or two of midnight, according to NOAA. Officials recommend getting away from city lights and sticking to lower latitudes.