NASA plans to study the Northern Lights by launching rockets in Alaska. The goal is to understand the causes of auroras' flickering, pulsating, and dark spots. Two missions with advanced instruments ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – This week, NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly known as the Northern Lights. Like a ...

Two NASA rocket missions are taking to the Alaskan skies in hopes of discovering why some auroras flicker, others pulsate, and still others are riddled with holes. Understanding these peculiar ...

NASA is all set to launch three small rockets that could paint the sky with colorful vapor trails; some people on the East Coast will be able to see colorful vapor trails that will be released shortly ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket mission to study the turbulence where Earth's atmosphere ends and outer space begins sometime over the next two weeks. The earliest the agency ...