Using the Parker Solar Probe, NASA achieved what was once impossible — flying directly into the Sun’s outer atmosphere to ...
We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.
While none of the spacecraft have cameras perfectly designed to spot comets zipping by at speeds up to about 153,000 miles per hour (246,000 kilometers per hour), astronomers didn’t want to miss what ...
A massive G4 solar storm is racing toward Earth — phone networks, GPS, and power grids face chaos. Here’s what you must know ...
As 3I/ATLAS races through our solar system, NASA and Harvard take unprecedented action to study its bizarre anti-tail and ...
The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...
Due to its immense distance, the Sun appears from Earth as a gentle, radiant, and serene star. In reality, however, it is a turbulent, dynamic sphere of plasma with unimaginably high temperatures.
Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...
Blue Origin canceled its planned Mars-bound launch of its ESCAPADE craft for the second time due to increased solar flare ...