NASA's PUNCH satellites successfully launch to study the solar wind
Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...
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Earth May Soon Get Early Solar Flare Warnings
Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...
Scientists Confirm 19-Year-Old Solar Flare Theory With NASA’s Iris Satellite
Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...
NASA’s PUNCH Just Switched On and Could Revolutionize Space Weather Forecasting
NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...
Northern Lights Forecast: These 10 States Could See Aurora Borealis Tonight
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts isolated minor geomagnetic storms throughout Saturday.
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely ...
NASA astronauts return home after major delay. Their extended stay could have health consequences
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were selected for the first crewed test flight on Boeing's Starliner and were ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
Northern Lights Forecast: These 8 States May See Aurora Borealis Tonight
The lasting effects of a geomagnetic storm are expected to pull the northern lights to more states, forecasters said.
NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...