Jeremy Frank, left, and Caleb Adams, right, discuss software developed by NASA's Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy project. The ...

Learn about the two NASA missions that hope to unlock the secrets behind multiple types of auroras by studying the role of ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Flares can ionize the Earth's ionosphere, disrupting high-frequency ... grids and increase the radiation exposure of astronauts. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at ...

Three NASA sounding rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range as early as Tuesday to learn more about three types of aurora — black, flickering and fast-pulsating. The launch window is ...

Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory NEW ORLEANS ... because heightened solar activity increased drag in the ionosphere.

NASA came on board in 1971 through a cost-sharing ... When the telescope concluded its work, Arecibo was part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. The National Science Foundation ...

Students had the chance to ask questions to astronaut Sunita Williams, one of the two astronauts currently stuck on the space ...

NASA will use two-stage Black Brant IX rockets ... several scientific instruments designed to study the atmosphere and ionosphere. Poker Flat is the world’s only scientific rocket launching ...