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A vivid display of the aurora lit up skies over the Denmark Strait and eastern Canada during a minor geomagnetic…
UPDATE (Feb. 10, 2026): NASA’s Black and Diffuse Auroral Science Surveyor and Geophysical Non-Equilibrium Ionospheric System Science (GNEISS) sounding rocket…
Scouring archived observations from NASA missions, scientists may have solved a mystery about what powers a type of aurora called auroral arcs. The…
A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026,…
Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a…
An astronaut captured a moonrise—and much more—in a series of photos taken from the International Space Station.
NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission is cleared to begin its 16-month-long science mission after team members collected “first…
In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in…
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two…
