A cluster of space weather satellites has blasted off to cast fresh eyes on solar storms. The three satellites belonging to ...

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

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will ...

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

SpaceX launched a triple ride-sharing mission for NOAA and NASA early Wednesday, kicking off a major upgrade to space weather ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Solar storms —giant bursts of energy from the Sun that disturb the Earth’s magnetic field—may play a role in triggering heart ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s ...

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

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new ...