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

NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...

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 has had incredible success with its solar missions. On December 14, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to "touch the Sun." Then there is the PUNCH fleet, which, in less ...

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

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 ...

In September, NASA announced that the threat of solar storms is reaching a new high, noting that the activities on the Sun's surface have intensified in the past decade. Solar storms can lead to some ...

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission is scheduled for launch, deploying to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point to map the heliosphere. IMAP will utilize ten scientific ...