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Northern Lights will be visible as far south as NEWCASTLE tonight as a huge solar storm strikes Earth – here’s the best time to see the stunning aurora from your area

It’s something that features on many people’s bucket lists. And if you’ve always dreamed of seeing the Northern Lights, make sure you have your eyes to the skies this evening. The stunning celestial display will be visible across large parts of the UK, following a coronal mass ejection. While the Northern Lights are usually only

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Northern Lights to shine across parts of the UK TONIGHT as a huge solar storm strikes Earth: Is your area going to be illuminated as Aurora Borealis lights up the night sky?

Thanks to energetic expulsions from the sun, skygazers will be treated to a spectacular natural light display tonight – the Northern Lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, the colourful phenomenon should be visible as far south as Dundee after nightfall, although the further north you can get the better. However, Brits as far south

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Huge underwater mountain TWICE the size of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is discovered off the coast of Guatemala

Scientists mapping the seafloor off the coast of Guatemala were in for a surprise after discovering an enormous underwater mountain. The mountain, or seamount, is 5,249ft (1,600 metres) tall, making it twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Experts from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered it using a multibeam echosounder on

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Huge ‘sunspot archipelago’ 15 times wider than Earth is spotted on the Sun – and scientists warn it could bombard our planet with solar flares capable of causing devastating blackouts

They look like small dots of pepper on a tasty egg yolk, or an ‘archipelago’ – a big group of islands on some faraway yellow planet.  But the latest set of snaps from NASA actually show a cluster of ‘sunspots’ – cooler parts on the sun’s surface caused by massive changes in our star’s magnetic field. 

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