NASA has issued a warning after detecting a powerful X-class solar flare from the Sun, with the potential to cause ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

SpaceX launched the eighth and final set of satellites last week, completing the 75 satellite fleet of Iridium's next-generation communication constellation. The rocket’s first stage had been ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

The space shuttle Atlantis landed at 4:57 a.m. CDT today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles. Now that it's back home, Atlantis won't be ...

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation resulting from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. They are classified into different categories based on their intensity, with ...

On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO. This sun-monitoring satellite is a ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today. NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is planned for launch aboard an Atlas rocket on July 22 from Cape ...

From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some of its finest magnetic ...

A small NASA spacecraft, dedicated solely to the study of high energy processes in gigantic explosions in the atmosphere of the Sun, is scheduled to be launched early next week. Although the 293 kg ...

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