NOAA awards Xplore $670,000 to study the options for space weather observatory Seattle-based Xplore has won a $670,111 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look into the feasibility of… Read More
Tethers Unlimited to provide hardware for NASA’s PUNCH sun-watching mission Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of… Read More
Solar Orbiter blasts off on a mission to study the sources of the sun’s power from pole to pole The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched tonight to begin a seven-year, $1.5 billion mission aimed at studying the sun and… Read More
Amazon Web Services enlists AI to help NASA get ahead of solar superstorms If the sun throws out a radiation blast of satellite-killing proportions someday, Amazon Web Services may well play a role… Read More
Watch Mercury move across the sun online — or in the sky, if you’re lucky and careful The planets will be aligned on Monday for a rare astronomical event known as the transit of Mercury, and skywatching… Read More
Officials explain why they closed Sunspot Solar Observatory (and it wasn’t aliens) After days of fighting rumors about alien visitations, the managers of the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico say they’re… Read More
Fastest, closest, hottest: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off to ‘touch the sun’ NASA today sent a super-shielded spacecraft known as the Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer… Read More
Northern lights provide a glowing auroral sendoff to Seattle’s summer weather Seattle’s final fling with hot weather featured a celestial fireworks show on Wednesday night, in the form of an auroral… Read More
Here comes the sun’s corona: What eclipse chasers will see during totality in August Skywatchers will see a rare celestial sight during the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse: the sun’s shimmering outer atmosphere, known… Read More
Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the clouds For the first time in a decade, we Earthlings can watch the planet Mercury’s black speck pass across the sun… Read More
How our ‘boring’ sun could potentially wipe us out We are incredibly vulnerable on our little ball Planet Earth. And it’s great to be reminded of that. The New… Read More
