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.

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

As a kid growing up in Columbus, Yuri Kubo would play with LEGO space sets and imagine traveling to distant planets. He made ...

The first Illinois-led NASA mission is getting ready to take flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. U ...

Dr. Eric Christian shares the importance of the IMAP mission and how it will play a part in the Artemis moon missions.

And NASA is now holding online events both today (Sept. 23) and Wednesday (Sept. 24) to discuss the Artemis 2 mission, which ...

According to NASA, “Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

NASA has announced 10 new astronaut candidates, including Katherine Spies, a former Marine Corps pilot and chemical engineer and Southern California native, who will undergo two years of intense ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. ET today (Sept. 24). SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space ...

Lara Waldrop, professor in Engineering, will lead the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission by a ...

SUNY Brockport meteorology major Logan Jewell was one of 24 students nationwide selected to spend their summer flying with ...

Liftoff of the IMAP missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for September 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.