Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the Aurora is an amazing and enthralling display of light in the night sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis which a are also called the northern lights and southern lights occur at the northern and southern poles. They are...
You may have been reading or hearing about the big planetary alignment next week. A large planetary alignment includes five or six planets. A great or full planetary alignment features all solar system planets, and sometimes Pluto. In this case the planets will appear...
Boeing is now targeting June 1 for the first crewed launch of its Starliner capsule, though that date is far from set in stone. The flight date for the mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), has been in considerable flux recently. It had been scheduled to lift off on...
The X-flare erupted on May 9, 2024 from giant sunspot AR3664.(Image credit: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams / helioviewer.org/Graphic compiled in Canva by Daisy Dobrijevic) A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the...
