SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms ... NASA said in a press release. Uranus is an oddball planet Uranus is an especially odd planet in our solar system ...

The great solar storm of May 2024 ... the result of the most powerful geomagnetic storm experienced on Earth since March 1989. And NASA's Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) satellite ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit ... With the help of a serendipitously resurrected small NASA satellite, scientists have discovered that this storm also created two new temporary ...

Update: The Northern Lights appeared across the US, as far south as Arizona, before sunrise on March 24, 2023. See photos ... as some powerful solar storms have in the past. Because of the ...

And since the moon’s gravity is one-sixth of Earth’s, it is a relatively easy springboard to other points of the solar system. [Inside the rockets that NASA and SpaceX plan to send to the moon ...

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have verified the imminent arrival of a 'Cannibal' eruption from the Sun, scheduled to reach Earth on December 1, said a ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

The increase in the number of solar missions is no coincidence. The reason behind this has to do with the solar cycle ...

In 2022, a geomagnetic storm caused atmospheric drag that destroyed 40 Starlink satellites, highlighting the fragility of satellite networks to space weather. NASA, NOAA, and ESA monitor solar ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.