An increase in solar activity on the sun brings another chance to see the northern lights in the Pacific Northwest Thursday ...

By 10:18 PM, the solar arrays had deployed, powering the spacecraft. Once GOES-U is in a geostationary orbit, about 22,200 miles above Earth, it will be renamed GOES-19. Its predecessor was GOES-T. In ...

Strong geomagnetic storms can disrupt radio communications and power grids and even damage orbiting satellites. But they can also boost the auroras , also known as the northern and southern lights, ...

A "severe" solar storm could make the northern lights visible in the U.S. farther south than usual while also posing the potential to disrupt modern technology, according to the National Oceanic and ...