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ESA's first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon takes shape
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and manoeuvre to its final destination without relying on a bigger spacecraft. Once in its orbit around the Sun, the carry-on luggage-sized CubeSat will observe the Sun's emissions to demonstrate technologies capable of providing advanced warnings of solar storms hours before they reach Earth. h3>Henon's firsts /h3> ESA's Heliospheric Pioneer for Sola ... read more |
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Newly Detected Twisting Magnetic Waves Offer Clues to Corona HeatingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2025 Scientists have reported the first clear evidence of twisting magnetic waves in the Sun's corona, detected with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope operated by the National Solar Observatory. For d ... more 
Breakthrough detection of twisting Alfven waves reveals possible solar corona heating mechanismLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 Researchers have directly observed small-scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona for the first time, a key discovery achieved with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii. These elus ... more 
Newly detected rhythmic radio signals shed light on solar atmospheric structuresTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 23, 2025 Researchers in China have unveiled a previously unknown pattern in solar radio emissions, observed during a major flare on May 8, 2024. The discovery comes from observations made using the Chashan B ... more 
China commissions world's first mid-infrared solar magnetic-field telescopeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025 The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has announced that the world's first telescope dedicated to measuring solar magnetic fields in the mid-infrared band ... more |
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Two newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares - intense bursts of energy in the S ... more 
Sun reverses decades-long decline and shows rising activityGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 The Sun, once thought to be heading for a historic period of quiet, has instead been growing more active since 2008, according to a new NASA study. Scientists had anticipated a prolonged minimum, bu ... more
NRL coronagraph on NOAA SWFO L1 will enhance space weather forecastsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Compact Coronagraph-2 launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT on September 24 as the primary instrument on NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory from NASA's Ke ... more
SpaceX launches 3 probes for NASA, NOAA to study space weatherWashington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2025 SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on Earth. ... more 
Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA's Study of Sun's Influence Across SpaceGreenbelt 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. Expec ... more |
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'Blood Moon' rises as Kenya looks to the stars for tourism
Samburu, 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. When the Sun, Earth and Moon line up, the shadow cast by the planet on its satellite makes it appear an eerie, deep red colour that has astounded humans for millennia. The phenomenon was visible late Sunday across the planet with some of those in a remote lodge in Samburu county, hundreds of miles from capital ... read 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 |
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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 
'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 Orbiter traces superfast electrons back to SunParis (ESA) Sep 02, 2025 The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst fr ... more 
IBM and NASA launch Surya AI model to forecast solar storms and safeguard technologyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 IBM and NASA have introduced Surya, an open-source foundation model designed to interpret high resolution solar data and improve space weather forecasting. The system, trained on NASA's Solar Dynami ... more 
NASA's PUNCH Mission Reaches Science Orbit, Releases DataGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 All four spacecraft of NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission have successfully maneuvered into their final science orbits as of Aug 7. Launched into Earth orbi ... more |
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