The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...
In February 2022, SpaceX launched a group of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Soon after launch, many of them began ...
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...
MILWAUKEE - Outer space has its own weather! Storms from the sun can harm satellites, astronauts, and even our own power grids right here on earth. On Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), NASA is launching ...
The NASA Space Weather Program studies how weather in space affects not only humans on Earth, but also how it could create challenges for astronauts and spacecraft on missions. Space weather is a term ...
Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is preparing to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, which launces at 7 30 a.m. Wednesday, will ...
Congress is poised to reject President Donald Trump’s “astounding” proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as NASA’s Earth science programs.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The next big mission to space is delayed but just by a few hours. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, NASA and SpaceX will now launch three satellites designed to study space weather on ...