A severe geomagnetic storm is possible starting Tuesday evening, and the clouds in Minnesota could cooperate to see the northern lights overhead.

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.

Two new large solar flares over the last 36 hours have increased the chances of northern lights this week, here's the latest projections.

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

Authorities predict that states as far south as Oregon and Illinois will be able to see auroras between now and Oct. 6 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

In the last 36 hours, the sun has emitted two more X-class solar flares, increasing the chances of northern lights appearing.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The sun remains in the peak of its eleven ...

Authorities predict that states as far south as Oregon and Illinois will be able to see auroras between now and Oct. 6 NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 1, ...