IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our solar system.
A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping ...
NASA's IMAP mission will launch probes to study the heliosphere, a solar shield protecting Earth, offering insights into ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and physical traits. While harmless to Earth, the comet provides scientists a ...
The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...
NASA scientists have confirmed that a mysterious object shooting toward us through the solar system is an "interstellar object" — only the third of its kind ever seen. Experts have also given ...
The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...