Scientists just observed a powerful solar storm that could carry the northern lights over the lower 48 in the near future.

Scientists of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna and Umeå University find that under certain conditions ...

The BepiColombo probe's flybys of Mercury have revealed just how sharply and rapidly the planet's local environment changes ...

For about five days every month, the Moon floats through Earth’s vast magnetosphere and sweeps up trapped atmospheric ...

Far above our heads in space, are giant doughnut shaped CLOUDS OF DANGEROUS RADIATION.THESE BELTS CAN BE DETRIMENTAL FOR SATELLITES AND ASTRONAUTS THAT PASS THR ...

When Artemis II launches late next year, its Orion capsule will become the first crewed spacecraft in 53 years to venture ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft will need to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation when they visit the moon in the upcoming Artemis missions.

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

Ask for the Moon If NASA's Europa Clipper mission launches next month, it will be embarking on a historic scientific ...

The discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by the U.S. Explorer 1 mission in 1958 marked a prominent milestone in space physics and demonstrated that Earth’s magnetosphere efficiently accelerates ...

Storm chaser and aurora hunter Jake Stehli captured the northern lights dancing above southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. in a ...