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Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA's Study of Sun's Influence Across Space
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun's influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, the missions include NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA's SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft. The three missions will launch together aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 r ... read more |
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'Blood Moon' rises as Kenya looks to the stars for tourismSamburu, Kenya (AFP) Sept 7, 2025 Under the Kenyan stars tourists and tribal dancers looked up at the rust red "blood moon" as the east African country launched a new tourism initiative promoting the country's night skies. ... more 
Delayed arrival of fast solar particles reveals new insights into shock accelerationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 Recent research has overturned long-held assumptions about how energetic particles move during solar eruptions. For decades, scientists believed that faster, higher-energy particles always arrive fi ... more 
'Blood Moon' to rise during total lunar eclipse Sunday nightParis (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 Stargazers will have a chance to see a "Blood Moon" on Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swathes of Europe and Africa. ... more 
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough studyLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 New research from the University of St Andrews suggests that ions in solar flares can heat to more than 60 million degrees, over six times hotter than previously believed, offering a solution to a 5 ... more |
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BAE Systems completes delivery of NOAA and NASA space weather satellites for fall launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 BAE Systems has completed the delivery of two advanced satellites from its Boulder, Colorado facility to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft-NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observator ... more 
Using soft X-rays to track magnetic reconnection may advance space weather forecastingTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 A research team from Chiba University has demonstrated how soft X-ray imaging could be used to monitor magnetic reconnection rates in Earth's magnetosphere-a critical development in improving space ... more 
ESA launches Vigil to track solar threats from deep space vantageParis, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 Vigil, the European Space Agency's upcoming space weather mission, will be the first satellite to maintain a continuous presence at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 5 (L5), providing an unprecedented si ... more 
NASA to launch SNIFS, Sun's next trailblazing spectatorGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 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 an ... more 
TRACERS satellites set to explore solar magnetic reconnection near EarthLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 NASA is preparing to launch the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission on July 22 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Led by the Univers ... more |
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2025 On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun's atmosphere. These newly released images - taken closer to the Sun than we've ever been before - are helping scientists better understand the Sun's influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth. ... read more 
Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threatsWashington (AFP) July 16, 2025 Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail - the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists. ... more |
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Helicity barrier discovery sheds light on how solar plasma heats and flowsLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2025 Scientists have obtained the clearest evidence yet for a long-theorized mechanism that alters how energy is dissipated in the Sun's atmosphere, helping explain the high temperatures and rapid accele ... more 
Artificial solar eclipses in space could shed light on SunLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2025 Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our Sun much quicker than if they had to wait for the celestial show on Earth. The plan, par ... more
UK hopes to bolster space weather forecasts with Europe's first solar storm monitorLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2025 A new UK-led satellite mission concept aims to strengthen the country's position in space weather observation and forecasting by deploying a suite of homegrown scientific instruments on a low-cost s ... more 
China leads international drive to build global space weather monitoring networkTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 30, 2025 Chinese researchers, in partnership with global scientific bodies, have launched an international initiative to construct the most extensive ground-based monitoring system yet aimed at decoding the ... more 
Proba-3 reveals breakthrough images of the solar corona from spaceParis, France (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 Proba-3, the European Space Agency's dual-satellite mission, has achieved a historic milestone by capturing its first images of the Sun's outer atmosphere during an artificial solar eclipse in orbit ... more |
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