The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system.

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

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

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Chile identified a comet ...

The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything about it that might align with a hypothetical alien spacecraft.

IMAP mission will explore our solar system's protective heliosphere and will also help us develop a better understanding of ...