Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

Fairbanks North Star Borough officials have suspended borough services Tuesday as a winter storm continues to impact the region.

All schools and extracurricular activities in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School district are cancelled Tuesday due to ...

The Fred Meyer store on Northern Lights Boulevard won the Alaska Division of Agriculture’s 2025 Alaska Grown $5 Store ...

NASA launched a sounding rocket from Alaska in the predawn hours of February 9, 2026, as part of a campaign to investigate one of the most puzzling features of the northern lights: the black aurora.

The northern lights could be visible from a portion of the northern United States tonight, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as strong geomagnetic activity raises the ...

NOAA forecasters say isolated G1 (minor) storm conditions are possible, which is just enough to spark northern lights at higher latitudes Getty A stream of fast solar wind from a coronal hole on the ...

A burst of solar wind could trigger a minor geomagnetic storm, offering another window to catch auroras from late Tuesday, Jan. 27, into early Wednesday, Jan. 28. Elizabeth Ruggiero/Getty Another ...

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