The NASA Space Weather Program studies how weather in space affects not only humans on Earth, but also how it could create challenges for astronauts and spacecraft on missions. Space weather is a term that refers to the way the sun impacts us and other ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX was back one day after a weather-related scrub and threaded the needle amid threatening clouds to send up the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Crew-11 launch from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA -SpaceX on November 17 launched NASA’s ‘Sentinel-6B’ satellite aimed at monitoring sea level change, the US space agency said. ‘Sentinel-6B’ is an Earth-observing satellite jointly developed by NASA and US and European partners ...

Congress is poised to reject President Donald Trump’s “astounding” proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as NASA’s Earth science programs.

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and space weather.

(NEXSTAR) – A crewed mission on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was postponed due to “an unfavorable weather forecast,” according to NASA. The launch was originally scheduled for 12:09 p.m. ET on Thursday. It has instead been rescheduled for Friday at ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the four-member Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on Friday morning, after weather forced the scrub of the mission a day earlier. NASA astronauts Cmdr. Zena Cardman and pilot ...

NASA is preparing to map the boundary where the solar wind meets interstellar space in its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, set for launch sometime after September of this year. NASA studies the heliosphere to gain a deeper understanding of ...