A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

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

NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an admission about that figure ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...

In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

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 ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...