The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the reason for each of those colors.

On the night of August 13, the northern ... hue is purple, which occurs at lower altitudes. This color forms because ionized ...

"You'd see this structured—almost like a patch—grey-toned or white toned-emission connected to the aurora," said researcher Emma Spanswick.

The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to a wide swath of Americans Friday night due to an impending solar storm forecast to reach Earth.

The auroras are a natural light display in Earth's sky that are famously best seen in high-latitude regions of the Northern and Southern ... Whether hues of green, red, blue and even pink ...