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NASA rockets to fly through flickering, vanishing auroras
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
Witnessing the aurora borealis, or northern lights, can be a moving experience. As ribbons of color fill the night sky, Earth's ever-present connection to space...
MSU researcher's breakthrough model sheds light on solar storms and space weather
Jan 20, 2025 (SPX)
Thomas Do, an astronomy graduate student at Michigan State University, published a paper predicting how particles accelerate under a wider net of circumstances ...
Exoplanets face challenges from intense space weather
Jan 17, 2025 (SPX)
The findings suggest that only planets with atmospheres rich in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, and located at significant distances from their stars ...
Solar Observatory sees coronal loops flicker before big flares
Jan 16, 2025 (SPX)
These warning signs could help NASA and other stakeholders protect astronauts as well as technology both in space and on the ground from hazardous space weather...
Proba-3 satellites separate for precision space mission
Jan 15, 2025 (SPX)
The Proba-3 satellites, launched on 5 December 2024 aboard a PSLV-XL rocket from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, had remained connected for six weeks post-l...
The beauty and danger of Solar Storms on Planet Earth
Jan 15, 2025 (SPX)
Solar flares release high-energy particles into space, which interact with Earth's atmosphere to create auroras. Physicist Dr. Kestutis Ikamas explains, "Solar ...
What causes the white patch near northern lights
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
The findings, published on Dec. 30 in the journal Nature Communications, detail how this white patch appears as a structured, grey- or white-toned emission embe...
Why Understanding Space Weather Is Critical for Earth's Safety
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
For those seeking fascinating insights, delving into space weather can bring unexpected discoveries, much like exploring new connections in life such as the int...
UNH researchers categorize aurora image database using artificial intelligence
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
The study, recently featured in the Journal of Geophysical Research, utilized advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to process over 706 mi...
Parker Solar Probe reports healthy status after solar encounter
Jan 06, 2025 (SPX)
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at 430,000 m...
NASA's LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth's Magnetosphere
Jan 06, 2025 (SPX)
The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar ...
Sun emits three powerful solar flares
Dec 31, 2024 (SPX)
Solar flares, potent bursts of energy from the Sun, have the potential to disrupt radio communications, impact power grids, affect navigation systems, and pose ...
Northern lights to ring in New Year's Eve in parts of United States
Dec 30, 2024 (UPI)
The powerful geomagnetic storm, or coronal mass ejection of solar material, is classified as a strong warning G3 that could produce northern lights visible thro...
Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest pass to Sun
Dec 28, 2024 (SPX)
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a ...
First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport experiment - KiNET-X - lifted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on May 16, 2021, in the final ...
Data confirms the Sun's magnetic field accelerates solar wind
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
The sharp S-shaped bends of the magnetic fields streaming out of the Sun, called magnetic switchbacks, have long been of interest to solar scientists. Switchbac...
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun
Dec 24, 2024 (AFP)
Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space-weather events that can...
NASA schedules heliophysics missions for September 2025 launch
Dec 23, 2024 (SPX)
IMAP's primary mission is to study the heliosphere, a protective magnetic bubble created by the Sun that shields the solar system from interstellar radiation. B...
NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of Sun
Dec 23, 2024 (AFP)
Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space-weather events that can...
Parker Solar Probe begins record-setting closest approach to the Sun
Dec 23, 2024 (SPX)
Mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, received a beacon transmission from Parker, through NASA's Deep Spa...
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