NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […]
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NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas. But not everything is as familiar as it seems. At minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit, the dune […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops
A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp. The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) successfully […]
Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it triggers a chemical reaction that could make water molecules. Now, in the most realistic lab […]
NASA Measures Moonlight to Improve Earth Observations
Flying high above the clouds and moon-gazing may sound like a scene from a timeless romance, but NASA did just that in the name of Earth science research. In March 2025 pilots took the agency’s ER-2 science aircraft on a series of night flights over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the […]
Eclipses, Science, NASA Firsts: Heliophysics Big Year Highlights
One year ago today, a total solar eclipse swept across the United States. The event was a cornerstone moment in the Heliophysics Big Year, a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From October 2023 to December 2024 — a period encompassing two solar eclipses across the U.S., two […]
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship
NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings. The NLS II contracts provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites. These high-priority, low and […]