A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

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 ...

NASA is preparing to map the boundary where the solar wind meets interstellar space in its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, set for launch sometime after September of this year. NASA ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

MILWAUKEE - Outer space has its own weather! Storms from the sun can harm satellites, astronauts, and even our own power grids right here on earth. On Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), NASA is launching ...

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and ...

There's a particular kind of dread that comes from looking at a map of the world and realizing it no longer looks quite like the one you memorized in school. Colors that shouldn't exist in certain ...