First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

Successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on January 19, 2019. Film ...

The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the ...

The United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully completed its inaugural national security mission (USSF-106), launching the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 into geosynchronous ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than ever before, offering the first direct glimpse into the turbulent solar atmosphere. Scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called the ...

In December, the Parker Solar Probe made history when it made the closest-ever approach to the sun by a spacecraft. As it whizzed by, a camera recorded incredibly detailed images, which show the sun’s ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...

The Parker Solar Probe was 1,500 pounds of ambition when it launched from Florida in 2018, on a seven-year mission to “touch the Sun.” The goal was to have the probe orbit 24 times, using Venus for a ...

If you want to talk about a real success story in the annals of American rocketry, you can't help but immediately default to the Delta II family of medium-lift carrier rockets. Birthed from a lineage ...

If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or ...