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650 Rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza in an attempt to overwhelm Israels Iron Dome: 173 intercepts, 4 people killed and 28 wounded. What is @IllhanMN response to this violence? Will she condemn it? - Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson, on …

Incredible footage has captured colourful auroras lighting up the night sky across Australia.  Lucky stargazers in certain parts of the country were able to catch a glimpse of Aurora Australis - also known as southern lights - on Wednesday night.   The natu…

A nearly complete lower jaw bone of a mastodon is displayed at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository.  (Photo: Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen) Alabama Selma: The federal government is giving the city a $1 million emergency grant to combat vi…

South Canterbury was treated to a night-sky show this week as the Aurora Australis, the southern version of the famous Aurora Borealis or northern lights, was sighted further north than usual. Timaru-based astrophotographer Paul Stewart caught the display o…

The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, appear in the sky over Bifrost, Western Iceland on March 1, 2017. The Northern Lights are created as a result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere and charged particles released by the sun,…

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A geomagnetic storm making its way to Earth may mean auroras are visible over parts of the U.S. on May 16. The storm is the result of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Space Weather Pr…

Australians may be able to catch a glimpse of a rare aurora lighting up the sky over the next two nights.  The fascinating phenomenon, which emits colourful rays of light into the earth's atmosphere, is typically observed near the north and south poles. The…

Cross your fingers for clear skies this week because parts of Canada could be treated to a spectacular show thanks to an incredible atmospheric phenomenon the Northern Lights. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a G1 Minor G…

Cross your fingers for clear skies this week because parts of Canada could be treated to a spectacular show thanks to an incredible atmospheric phenomenon the Northern Lights. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a G1 Minor G…