<p>Researchers announced the finding at a press conference on Jan. 31, 2012. It’s based on data from NASA’s IBEX spacecraft, which is able to sample material flowing into the solar
<p>NASA’s New Horizons mission reached a special milestone yesterday, Dec. 2, 2011, on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft.</p> <p>It’s taken New
<p>For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized
<p>The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon circling Pluto. P4, as it is currently called, is the smallest moon yet found orbiting Pluto, with an estimated size
<p>Lonely Pluto floats in the darkness at the edge of our solar system. It’s so far away even the Hubble Space Telescope has trouble making out the details. Nevertheless, Pluto
<p><a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/jupiter/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>So you thought Northern Lights were big in Alaska? “That’s nothing,” says Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “Jupiter has auroras bigger than
<p>NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image
Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low <p>Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2007/05/25/25may_costep_resources/radhaz.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a></p> <p>A scientist using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms. The new method offers as much as one