The space agency’s AWESOME mission fired three rockets into the night sky in a bid to improve space weather forecasting.

The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska during a sudden auroral substorm.

In July 2024, a baby walrus was found orphaned on the shores of Utqiagvik, Alaska At the time, the walrus, later named Uki, was emaciated and dehydrated, with small, superficial wounds covering her ...