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

When I see planets in the night sky, I think of them as old friends. I know, I know — I need to get out more, but my oldest ...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were captured in a single frame. At the time, Voyager 1 was more ...

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...

This invisible boundary is known as the heliosphere. It's the endpoint beyond which our Sun does not have any reach or power.

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with secondary payloads, launched aboard a Falcon 9 on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space ...

However, a series of groundbreaking technologies are now knocking on the door of interstellar travel, injecting fiery hope ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...