As northern Alaska takes on Polar night, with 64 days of darkness, Antarctica will enter Polar day, with 24 hours of sunlight ...

The sun will set at 1:36 p.m. in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, but won’t rise for another 65 days as the polar night sets in.

The Trump administration previously said that the restrictions were preventing Alaska from unlocking its energy potential.

Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11. The space agency blasted three sounding rockets above central and northern ...

Imagine standing beneath a sky alive with swirling greens, purples, and reds—nature's own light show, the aurora borealis. Alaska, with its vast, dark skies and prime location beneath the auroral oval ...

The northern lights have a moderate chance of appearing in parts of the Upper Midwest, Great Plains and Alaska on Sunday night into Monday morning—but they could appear even brighter the next night as ...

States along the Canadian border may have an opportunity to see the northern lights again on Tuesday night, after recent geomagnetic storms pulled the phenomenon farther south, according to the ...

FAIRBANKS — Over the blat of engines and hum of tires on nearby Farmers Loop, Mark Spangler hears the chuckles of the animal he is studying. Male wood frogs in a 1-acre pond on the campus of the ...

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