Seeing an aurora is often considered a bucket list experience. Learn how a cartographer used maps to improve his chances.

The northern lights are expected to grace the skies of some northern states in the wake of a coronal mass ejection from the ...

Washington is among more than a dozen states that might be able to see the northern lights on June 25 and June 26.

Instead they referenced Seattle’s Aurora Bridge, the town in Colorado, or a person named Aurora. So the project used crowdsourcing to separate legitimate recent sightings from random references.

Seattle isn't as much of a hot spot for the northern lights as, say, Alaska or Sweden – but this weekend, the Emerald City basked in a green auroral glow.

Seattle’s run of clear weather in November may very well be perfectly timed, with the aurora borealis possibly making an appearance in the night sky between Wednesday and Thursday. According to ...