The three satellites aimed for a Sun-orbiting lookout one million miles from Earth, each on its own separate mission.

SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on ...

This spacecraft is one of three dedicated to studying solar wind and its effects on space weather. It launched today (Sept.

It will be several years before any of these new commercial space stations circle the Earth at around 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) and several years before the ISS is deorbited ...

SpaceX launched three satellites early Wednesday headed on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and dangerous solar flares. A ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

The two NASA missions are the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, and the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory.

Three new spacecraft successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, inaugurating missions to better understand the sun and its effects on Earth. One satellite is the ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission will map it like never before.