NASA launched two sounding rocket missions from Alaska to measure auroral electrical currents and study geomagnetic storm impacts on Earth’s upper atmosphere and space-based systems.

For the first time in decades, a level 8 aurora borealis has erupted into view, turning the night sky into a curtain of electric green and violet and stunning skywatchers across the world. I trace how ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to Earth by NASA's Juno spacecraft, they showed that the ...

NASA’s GNEISS mission will launch twin rockets from Alaska in 2026 to map the electric currents driving auroras. Using multiple sub-payloads and radio signals, scientists will reconstruct electron ...

NASA launched a sounding rocket from Alaska in the predawn hours of February 9, 2026, as part of a campaign to investigate one of the most puzzling features of the northern lights: the black aurora.

A NASA-funded rocket mission is headed to space to measure the global electric circuit underlying the northern lights. For its second trip to space, the Aurora Current and Electrodynamics Structures ...

Charles Swenson receives funding from NASA and the NSF to study space weather. The aurora borealis lights up the Arctic night skies. Also called the Northern Lights, the phenomenon is the result of ...

An international research team has measured the system of currents that generates Jupiter's aurora. The scientists found out that sulphur dioxide gas from the gas giant's Moon Io is the cause of the ...