At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

The NOAA maintains various types of equipment and methods to analyze global weather and predict likely outcomes, while ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

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

SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with ...

TRACERS launch paves the way for NASA to study magnetic reconnection and how solar activity affects near-Earth space.

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging from basic science to technology development.

The University of Iowa's NASA mission, TRACERS, successfully launched into orbit, marking a significant milestone in space ...

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 new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

Satellites orbiting Earth facilitate every GPS ping, global communication, weather prediction and live stream. But when they ...