SOLAR SCIENCE

News About Solar Technology

1,340 articles

Europe spotlights space weather hazards
Nov 12, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme is taking centre stage during the ninth European Space Weather Week, with experts showcasing a recently opened space...
NASA's SAMPEX Mission: A Space Weather Warrior
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's very first small explorer, the Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer or SAMPEX, was launched July 3, 1992 to study the zoo of particles ...
STEREO Reaches New Milestone At Its Sixth Anniversary
Oct 29, 2012 (SPX)
On the evening of Oct. 25, 2006, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft launched into space, destined for fairly simple orbits: bo...
NASA Study Using Cluster Reveals New Insights Into Solar Wind
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
A new study based on data from European Space Agency's Cluster mission shows that it is easier for the solar wind to penetrate Earth's magnetic environment, the...
SwRI to build miniature solar observatory for manned suborbital flight
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received funding from NASA to build a miniature, portable solar observatory for developing and testing innovative instru...
Heliophysics Nugget: Gradient Sun
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. But there is more to the connection betw...
Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
An increasing number of scientists are studying ways to temporarily reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth to potentially stave off some of the worst ...
Sun Spits Out A Coronal Mass Ejection
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME). Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiati...
Getting NASA's SDO into Focus
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
From Sept. 6 to Sept. 29, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) moved into its semi-annual eclipse season, a time when Earth blocks the telescope's view ...
The Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, CME
Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)
The sun erupted with a wide, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 27, 2012 at 10:25 p.m. EDT. CMEs are a phenomenon that can send billions of ton...
Scientists Shed Light on Riddle of Sun's Explosive Events
Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)
Four decades of active research and debate by the solar physics community have failed to bring consensus on what drives the sun's powerful coronal mass ejection...
Orbiting Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material - made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a...
Basic solar system measure redefined
Sep 17, 2012 (UPI)
Astronomers meeting in Beijing say they've agreed on a new definition of the fundamental unit of distance between objects in the solar system. The "astronomical...
ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between the Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vi...
Los Alamos Provides Hope For Radiation Belt Storm Probes
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
New Mexico, August 30, 2012-Los Alamos National Laboratory expertise in radiation detection and shielding is poised to help a national team of scientists better...
Atlas 5 Launches Twin Radiaton Belt Probes
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes are flying in Earth orbit after a successful liftoff and ascent this morning. The probes launched aboard a United Launch Alli...
China Exclusive: Scientists looking for site for giant solar telescope
Aug 29, 2012 (XNA)
Chinese scientists are looking for a site for a giant solar telescope, which will be the world's largest in the next two decades with data helping to understand...
It's Always Sunny in Caltech Lab
Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)
In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television and radio feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft ...
UI instruments aboard twin NASA spacecraft set for launch August 24
Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)
On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission to study the extremes o...
Researchers gear up for NASA radiation belt space mission
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
The University of Colorado Boulder will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth's two giant radiation bel...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.