NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.

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.

A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous effects.

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.