Red auroras are comparatively less frequent ... increasing the likelihood of more vibrant and varied aurora colors. The sun's activity fluctuates on an 11-year solar cycle, with periods of peak ...

One loyal KTVZ viewer was up all night Tuesday, as he captured a stunning timelapse of the Northern Lights, also known as ...

If you feel like you've seen more of the northern lights painting the night sky lately, you'd be right—and there's an ...

Skygazers in America, particularly in northern US states, have a chance to witness the aurora borealis this week due to increased geomagnetic activity. NOAA predicts a Kp index of four for Wednesday ...

But green is not the color most people saw Thursday night. Thursday’s aurora was red. Similar to green, red also comes about from collisions with oxygen. But unlike green, red only occurs when ...

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

The aurora is most often seen as green, but it also occasionally shows off other colors, ranging from red to pink or blue to purple, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical ...

and releasing photons of light in different colors — or the aurora. At lower latitudes, red auroras are more common because red occurs at higher altitudes and can be seen farther away from the ...

NASA said it's likely that if astronauts had been on the surface of Mars near the rover, they would have been able to see the glowing green lights. Original article source: Mars astronauts would be ...

The fewer collisions there result in a perception by humans of the excited atomic oxygen atoms as the color red. This is why the upper parts of the aurora curtains can appear as green fading into ...