The northern lights have been a hot commodity, casting their glow far and wide, not only over the last week, but since the ...
The Sentinel-6B is the second of two satellites in a $1 billion program to monitor sea levels over a full decade.
To enable communication or broadcast over a vast region(almost one-third of the Earth), a satellite must be placed in a circular orbit 36,000kms above the Earths equator, this is known as a ...
In the early hours of Saturday, SpaceX marked another milestone in its ambitious satellite internet venture by successfully launching 29 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs when the sun releases massive amounts of energy and charged particles toward Earth. These storms are rare, occurring about once ...
Amazon has been working on Project Kuiper for years. With it almost coming online soon, it's now been given a fresh ...
The memorandum outlining the Space Force’s new nomenclature was signed in 2023 by then-Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, who was the ...
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Earth's Equator Defies Magnetic Polarity Rules

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...
Shockingly large' amount of sensitive satellite data is unencrypted and vulnerable to interception, researchers find ...
While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed ...
The design of the Nuri rocket, scheduled for its fourth launch on the 27th, has been partially modified with the primary goal ...
A massive geomagnetic superstorm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s plasma shield collapses and slowly rebuilds under extreme solar pressure. Using the perfectly ...