Discover the science behind the mesmerizing Northern and Southern Lights. Learn how solar particles interact with Earth's ...

But unlike the northern lights, which are visible from many places in the Northern Hemisphere, the southern lights are more elusive and notoriously more difficult to see. That's largely because ...

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

While the northern lights often steal the spotlight, their southern counterpart—aurora australis—offers an equally dazzling display of its own. It paints the sky green, violet, red, but ...

The Southern Lights in Christchurch, New Zealand on June 1, caused by the same coronal mass ejection responsible for the Northern Lights. Credit: Sanka Vidanagama / AFP via Getty Images.

The same process happens in the Southern Hemisphere, but instead, it's known as the Aurora Australis, or the Southern Lights. On April 16, in the Northern Hemisphere, ...