In 2024, an uptick in solar activity made northern lights visibility reach a 500-year peak, according to NASA, bringing ...

Here's how to watch the northern lights predicted to color the night sky on New Year's Eve this year. See the lights on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.

So far, only two CMEs are forecast to arrive at Earth just in time to ... SWPC issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch through Jan. 1. The SWPC rates solar storms on a five-level scale, with five being ...

NOAA says the best time to catch the lights is between 10 ... flare (X is the highest letter on the solar flare measurement scale, indicating the strongest class of flares). A severe geomagnetic storm ...

NOAA classifies geomagnetic storms using a G-scale, which ranks their intensity from G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme). The recent geomagnetic storm watch NOAA issued is rated as a G3, indicating strong ...

via Getty Images) Monday night’s northern lights could have a Kp index as strong as 6.67 on a scale of 0 to 9 ... be prompted by a strong G3-level geomagnetic storm that is expected to take ...