The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will be traveling a million miles through space, the spacecraft will remain ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning ...

Newly Launched NASA Missions Will Help Scientists Understand The Influence Of The Sun, Both From Up Close And Afar. Even at a ...

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars.

The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has set a new speed record, racing through the Sun’s corona at 687,000 km/h. This is the fastest ...

The Parker Solar Probe of NASA, which became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona — the Sun’s upper atmosphere — ...

A new study reveals that asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water. This challenges old beliefs about asteroids. Scientists ...