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A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

Relative humidity may be what gets talked about most in forecasts, but dew point is actually a much more useful measure of how much water vapor is in the atmosphere.

Northern Michigan could see the northern lights, or aurora borealis, the nights of May 16 and 17, weather permitting. Here's what to know.

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

What steps can be taken to enhance in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future astronauts on Mars? This is what a recent ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in ...

A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

“For the first time ever, visible aurora has been observed on Mars. It was observed using two instruments on the Mars 2020 ...

In collaboration with a Japanese university, NASA researchers used supercomputers to predict when life will no longer be ...