FAIRBANKS, Alaska – This week, NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly known as the Northern Lights.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Two NASA rocket missions are taking to the Alaskan skies in hopes of discovering why some auroras flicker, others pulsate, and still others are riddled with holes.

Each rocket is expected to soar about 200 miles over the earth’s surface. Two of the rockets serve the research of Research Astrophysicist Robert Michell with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer ...

Robert Goddard’s 1928 Hoopskirt Rocket Was a (Very) Small Step to the Moon A three-second flight to 204 feet may not sound impressive now, but it was a big deal then. September 2019 ...

The Roman space telescope's four fuel tanks are pushed into position in the clean-room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The tanks will hold 300 gallons of hydrazine thruster ...

The gravitational space observatory is on track to launch in 2035. The prototype LISA telescope undergoes post-delivery inspection in a darkened NASA Goddard clean room on May 20.