SpaceX launched a triple ride-sharing mission for NOAA and NASA early Wednesday, kicking off a major upgrade to space weather forecasting and research into influences from the Sun. A Falcon 9 rocket ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX launched three satellites early Wednesday on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather, including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and ...

The NASA Space Weather Program studies how weather in space affects not only humans on Earth, but also how it could create challenges for astronauts and spacecraft on missions. Space weather is a term ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on Earth. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is preparing to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, which launces at 7 30 a.m. Wednesday, will ...

A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. A coronal mass ejection -- ...

The invisible forces erupting from our Sun create a chaotic environment extending far beyond what most people imagine. Space ...

Skywatchers in the US could be in for a treat this week, with the northern lights expected to be visible from several states as a geomagnetic storm continues to batter the Earth. NOAA's Space Weather ...

Behind the unsettled conditions is a stream of unusually fast solar wind flowing from a large coronal hole on the sun.