Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

The TRACERS mission—short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites—aims to study how ...

NASA TRACERS mission is set to study how Earth's magnetic field protects us from solar storms and space weather. The mission ...

NASA's twin TRACERS satellites launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday. The satellites will study how to protect Earth from the space weather surrounding the planet.

The University of Iowa led NASA TRACERS mission launches today around 1 p.m. Here's how to tune in online or at a Iowa City ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.

The mission will help better predict how energy from the sun affects life on Earth, including disruptions to satellites, power grids and astronauts.

TRACERS will explore Earth’s polar cusps to study magnetic reconnection e NASA satellites aim to forecast solar storms affecting key systems Twin satellites to fly in sync for real-time space weather ...

This week NASA launched a new weather satellite, JPSS-2, into polar orbit around the Earth. But this launch was a special one, as it also included a test of a new inflatable heat shield called LOFTID.