The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

Colorful Northern Lights could be seen unusually far south ... they can send an extra flood of solar wind shooting toward Earth, hypercharging the aurora and even pushing it closer to the equator.

The NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center says a solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to the Lower Hudson Valley on New Year's Eve. But with a high chance of rain in the evening ...