Areas closest to the Canadian border have the best chances of seeing the lights.

The northern lights may appear over parts of the U.S tonight as a coronal mass ejection (CME)—an eruption of plasma and magnetic field from the sun—is predicted to reach the Earth. The impact could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of the northern lights, you usually think of swirls of colors visible under cold skies in Alaska or Canada. But the ...

The northern lights were visible in some northern U.S. states this week, and could be visible in Alaska through the weekend. The probability of seeing the aurora borealis from any U.S. state outside ...