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Places in a dark area with a large view of the north will be your best bet.

It's been a pretty interesting month of August when it comes things like meteor showers and super moons--but the best may be yet to come, and it may happen as early as tonight in the skies over Northern Illinois.

The Northern Lights could be visible in parts of northern Illinois and other parts of the Midwest several times this week, but the peak of the solar storm is...

It's been a pretty interesting month of August when it comes things like meteor showers and super moons--but the best may be yet to come, and it may happen as early as tonight in the skies over Northern Illinois.

A recent research conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) has claimed that the Sun has reached its middle age, estimated at 4.57 billion years.

American Space Agency NASA has spotted a huge solar flare erupting from the side of the Sun which may be the result of a highly active solar area spinning in this direction.

Solar flares are energetic bursts of plasma that move outwards from the sun. They form from the interaction of the sun’s magnetic field and rotation.

Researchers from Lancaster University have revealed how solar storms can interfere with railway signals, turning them from red to green even if there are no trains nearby.

"Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history... illumined by the intermittent flare of the event." -Fernand Braudel

A solar eruption expected to pass by Earth TODAY could spark minor geomagnetic storms lasting days, the MetOffice has warned. It is the result of a slow-motion solar flare from Monday