Uranus is an oddball planet. It spins around the Sun on its side, so the poles take turns pointing towards the Sun during the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on May 10 was the strongest in 21 years — exceeding forecasts and bringing the spectacle of the aurora borealis south (and the aurora australis north) to ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

An isolated brown dwarf that doesn't orbit a star shows possible signs of aurorae. The discovery was made by the James Webb Space Telescope research team and was detailed in a new report on the Webb ...

Aurorae are a familiar phenomenon on our home planet, Earth. Better known as the “northern lights” – aurorae are a beautifully dramatic atmospheric process which occurs when charged particles from the ...

A new study on Saturn's aurorae has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Aurorae on Earth and other planets are formed by powerful currents flowing into the atmosphere from the ...

Scientists using ESA’s Mars Express have produced the first crude map of aurorae on Mars. These displays of ultraviolet light appear to be located close to the residual magnetic fields generated by ...

An international multidisciplinary team consisting of solar physicists, geophysicists, and historians from nine countries analysed observations of an extreme solar-terrestrial storm reported in ...