NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its aging Swift space telescope will be this fall, so a private spacecraft can boost its altitude.

A European-Chinese space weather mission launched to orbit on Monday night (May 18). The SMILE spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana Monday at ...

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its ...

EUROPE and China launched a joint space science mission last May 19 aimed at unraveling the complex interaction between the Sun and Earth’s magnetic environment, a phenomenon that directly affects ...

There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could ...

Together, the instruments provide simultaneous global-scale imaging of magnetospheric dynamics and in-situ measurements of ...

The International Space Station-bound SpaceX Cargo Dragon is loaded with 6,500 pounds of needed equipment, research gear and ...

The International Space Station-bound SpaceX Cargo Dragon is loaded with 6,500 pounds of needed equipment, research gear and crew supplies.

A Vega-C rocket carrying the SMILE satellite blasts into the sky in Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday. XINHUA . The successful launch of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Li ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

A meteor exploded just off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom, Saturday. Meteorologists have said a loud blast ...