Colourful Northern Lights have been spotted over the UK and the Met Office says they could've visible for days. A ...

If you're unable to view the northern lights in person, an online live view is the next best (and considerably warmer) thing. The northern lights are a truly remarkable spectacle, with curtains of ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

In order for the Northern Lights to take center stage, a stream of charged solar wind particles has to successfully enter Earth’s magnetic field. “These interactions energize atmospheric gases ...

Keep reading to find out what that means and how it affects the northern lights. The sun is constantly emitting a stream of electrically charged particles that travels through space until it ...

Northern Lights hunters across the North East have ... Steven tracks an app called Space Weather Live, which shows him both the speed and density of the solar wind - the greater these are, the ...

The Met Office has said the Northern Lights may be visible across the UK this weekend. The Northern Lights, also known as the aurora borealis, is caused by charged particles from the sun and some ...

as a stream of electrically charged particles called "solar wind" hits the poles and reacts with molecules in the atmosphere. The Northern Lights are typically only visible closer to the Arctic ...