No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

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

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more dependent on satellites for everything from communication to navigation, ...

At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of plasma and magnetic fields on the Sun. These ropes typically aren’t strong ...

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

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 ...

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

A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in ...

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 study space weather and ...