According to NOAA, "view lines" Michiganders as far south as Grand Rapids, Lansing and Port Huron may be able to catch a glimpse of the shimmering lights in the night sky to the north. The lights ...

A cloud of hot, magnetized plasma — a coronal mass ejection — erupted from the Sun on Wednesday, July 23, headed off into ...

The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 18 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

The TRACERS mission comprises twin satellites designed to investigate how surges in the solar wind trigger magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere. This phenomenon, where magnetic field lines ...

The mission will help better predict how energy from the sun affects life on Earth, including disruptions to satellites, power grids and astronauts.

One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

Shawn Dahl, the Service Coordinator at the Space Weather Prediction Center, says that geomagnetic storms have been running rampant in space and may be affecting agriculture on Earth. Dahl shares some ...

A new study demonstrates how an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) clears the path for following transients and ...

One day our destiny may take us to the stars, but what happens if we find we are unable, or unwilling, to journey to new ...

Solar activity is forecasted to have a chance of minor to moderate soalr flares through Thursday July 24 with a slight chance ...