When breathtaking auroras wash the sky with color, people around the world can help scientists better understand what creates the beautiful displays and where they appear. By communicating their ...

Northern lights color the skies over Sauðárkrókur, Iceland, captured by Aurorasaurus user Jason Grunstra, March 7, 2016 Aurorasaurus/Jason Grunstra Aurora glows over Sauðárkrókur, Iceland, taken by ...

The Twitterverse can help you catch a glimpse of the shimmering northern lights. The NASA-backed Aurorasaurus project uses crowdsourcing to assemble a real-time map of aurora sightings around the ...

Aurorasaurus is a citizen science project designed to track auroras online, the first crowdsourcing project geared toward keeping tabs on geomagnetic storms in real time. Since it was founded by Liz ...

The aurora borealis that took place on St. Patrick’s day was spectacular, but aside from being the strongest geomagnetic storm in a decade, there’s another reason it was special. It was the first time ...

Similar to weather models, space weather models need to take real observations into account when forecasting the aurora visibility. Knowing what’s going on in real time helps these models become more ...

Aurorasaurus is a citizen science project that tracks auroras through the project's website, mobile apps and Twitter. Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her ...

Steve, as it is called by sky watchers and amateur Aurora chasers in Calgary, Canada, is a strand of purple light that extends from east to west. At times, neon green lights intertwine with purple ...

Image courtesy of Jónína Óskarsdóttir, used with permission; rights reserved When breathtaking auroras wash the sky with color, people around the world can help ...