This animation shows images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the…
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A state of the art quartet of identical science satellites aimed at unraveling the mysteries…
NASA’s first mission dedicated to study the process in nature known as magnetic reconnection undergoing final preparation for launch from…
After a 17 year long wait, a new American mission to monitor intense solar storms and warn of impeding space…
The long awaited Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR science satellite is slated to blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon…
It's a-comin': a "monster" sunspot is steadily rotating around the Sun's southern hemisphere and will soon be in position to fire…
Approximately every 11 years the Sun becomes violently active, putting on a show of magnetic activity for aurora watchers and…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agency’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese and…
Solar astronomers have been keeping an eye on giant sunspot AR1944, and as it turned towards Earth today, the sunspot…
Ball lightning? Spectral orbs? Swamp gas? Early this morning, May 7, these eerie glowing trails were seen in the sky…