Aurora watchers could be in for a treat after the Sun blasted off a huge X-class flare this week. A sunspot region unleashed an X-class solar flare on Thursday (3 Oct), which are the most powerful.

A spectacular display of Earth's southern auroras was captured on camera by astronauts on the International Space Station during a recent solar storm. The dazzling aurora has a sinuous ribbon shape ...

Residential architects have become the new darlings of the superyacht world. In some cases, they are replacing traditional yacht designers. In most, they are making the familiar, well-established ...

A pair of solar storms in early September 2014 sparked amazing aurora displays for some observers. See photos of those amazing auroras in this Space.com gallery. Here: Astrophotographer Mia Stålnacke ...

When powerful solar storms sent massive waves of charged particles streaking toward Earth last month, Terje Sorgjerd was ready. The Norwegian landscape photographer was hunkered down in the frigid ...

Pink and green lights shimmer over a farmhouse in central Maine in this beautiful photo sent in to SPACE.com by a veteran night sky photographer this month. Vivid northern lights like those seen in ...

Tama Baldwin is a photographer living in the American Midwest. In July and August 2013 she joined a team of artists and scientists surveying archaeological sites in the arctic as part of the Aldo ...

Nature has dealt humans a rough hand lately, with hurricanes, fires and a huge earthquake. But over the past week, it also produced an incredibly beautiful spectacle with astonishing frequency: an ...