July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...

As the northern hemisphere dims during Wednesday’s solar eclipse, a small plane will be chasing the darkness. Nasa is sending up a specialised high-altitude research jet to moni ...

Three new spacecraft successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, inaugurating missions to better understand the sun and its effects on Earth. One satellite is the ...

NASA will launch a scientific campaign during the August 12 solar eclipse. A high-altitude aircraft will study the Sun's corona for extended periods. Dozens of balloons will track changes in Earth's ...

Thanks to the sun, we're in the middle of the best time to see the northern lights — and maybe the worst time to be a satellite. NASA announced Tuesday that the sun is in the "maximum phase" of its 11 ...

Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating ...