Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...

Geomagnetic storms pose a significant threat to humanity, particularly as we enter a period of heightened solar activity ...

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

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

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 ...

“Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise,” stated NOAA. “The aurora is ...

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

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

Some “minor” geomagnetic storm levels are expected to pull the northern lights to more states, forecasters said.