Northern lights may make rare appearance in parts of US

The northern lights didn't make a hoped for appearance Thursday morning but could appear Thursday night, a NASA expert says. The aurora borealis isn't usually visible in the continental United States. However a solar storm on Tuesday may have been big 

The massive flare that erupted from the sun on Tuesday could bring beautiful displays of the Northern Lights as far south as Colorado late on Thursday night.

"There is a potential for increased activity tonight due to an inbound coronal mass ejection that accompanied a solar flare," states aurorawatch.ca, the University of Alberta's northern lights watchers. "A coronal mass ejection is an emission of plasma

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say there's a 90% chance of a strong geomagnetic storm on Thursday that will cause skies in northern latitudes to light up in brilliant and beautiful shades of greens and reds. The storm

A picture taken late on March 7, 2012 of northern lights in Abisko, Swedish Lapland. The strongest space weather storm in five years struck Earth on March 8, 2012 causing some airlines to reroute their flights, threateningÂ