The Institute for Fusion Science installed the Hyperspectral Camera for Auroral Imaging (HySCAI) in Kiruna, Sweden, in May ...

Auroras are one of Earth’s most captivating natural phenomena, painting the night sky with vibrant colors. While scientists ...

Top image shows the normal proton aurora formation mechanism first discovered in 2018. White lines show that solar wind protons traveling away from the Sun are normally swept around the planet by the ...

The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, has made first observations of a new type of proton aurora around Mars. The spatially variable ‘patchy’ ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. LU Quanming and Prof. GAO Xinliang from the School of Earth and Space Sciences and the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory at the University of Science and ...

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are a mesmerizing celestial occurrence in the Arctic regions. Although it displays the creative talent of nature, this ethereal display is ...

The bottom image shows the newly discovered formation mechanism for patchy proton aurora. Green lines in the top image show that under normal conditions the solar wind magnetic field drapes nicely ...