NASA has selected a proposed solar mission for further study as part of its Small Explorer programme, extending early design work rather than approvin.

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

Space exploration is heating up, and America is once again leading the charge – thanks in large part to SpaceX and its revolutionary approach to launching rockets. Earlier this month, SpaceX described ...

Three NASA missions are set to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study the Sun's influence. The primary mission, IMAP, will travel one million miles from Earth to study the heliosphere and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...