Watch: Solar Storm's Northern Lights Show Largest solar storm in nine years gives stargazers a treat in the skies.
  Watch: Mysteries of the Northern Lights David Muir gives a little insight into what creates those amazing auroras.
  Suicidal Comet Lives! Comet Lovejoy, plunging toward the sun as NASA spacecraft watched, was expected to be vaporized by the sun's heat. Instead it survived, missing the sun by less than 90,000 miles. It was observed this morning heading back into deep space.
  Bears at Play, Key for Survival Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play — defined as “apparently purposeless activity that’s fun to do and pleasurable” — be vital for grim survival in such an often random...
  First Meteor Shower of 2012 Dazzles The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.
  Family Billed $11K for Streaming Movies When the Gibsons of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in Canada, returned home from a family vacation in Arizona, they found a $10,600 bill from their Internet provider – all because they had let their children stream movies on Netflix without realizing there would be roaming charges. “The kids were getting...
 
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