Space weather is real, and it has more of an impact on life on Earth than you may think. A new multi-pronged mission intends ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In an all new episode of "Weather or Not with Lee Goldberg," an astrophysicist explains why the weather in space may be causing satellites to plummet toward Earth and sink toward ...

Mission-critical hardware used in space is not supposed to fail at all, because lives may be lost in addition to resources, availability, performance, and budgets. For space applications, failure can ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous effects.

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. ET today (Sept. 24). SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space ...