On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

For the second time, NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully captured visible green auroras on Mars, an astonishing ...

A composite of two observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Jupiter's aurora.NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (University of Leicester) An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the ...

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Northern Lights in an arc across the northern sky over ...

On Earth, bursts of particles spewed by the Sun spark shimmering auroras, like the Northern Lights, that briefly dance at our planet’s poles. But, on Jupiter, there’s an auroral glow all the time, and ...

We have a fair chance of seeing northern lights the next few nights as multiple blasts arrive from the sun. Green and purple aurora light up the northern sky on the night of July 1-2. Streams of ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...