Through its new strategy, NOAA seeks flexibility to respond quickly to emerging data providers and data products. In some cases, the agency may begin working with companies before their satellites reach orbit.

Bright red aurora is seen from Virginia in November, 2025.(WTOP/Greg Redfern) If December night skies weren’t already putting on a show with a meteor shower and a supermoon — just to name some — northern lights could possibly grace the D.C. region ...

Space weather may feel distant, unfolding far above Earth in regions we never see, but its impacts can be surprisingly close to home.

The invisible forces erupting from our Sun create a chaotic environment extending far beyond what most people imagine. Space weather consists of solar particles, magnetic fields, and radiation streaming across the solar system at incredible speeds.

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be used as a "space weather station" to better understand the ways that particles from stars contribute to planetary conditions.

The Space Weather Follow On — Lagrange 1 executed its final engine burn Jan. 23 to reach its destination roughly 1.6 million kilometers from Earth. It was then renamed SOLAR-1, short for Space weather Observations at L1 to Advance Readiness.

SpaceX planned to launch a Space Force GPS satellite Monday night, but poor weather forced the mission to be postponed.