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 ...
In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Chile identified a comet ...
A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping ...
IMAP mission will explore our solar system's protective heliosphere and will also help us develop a better understanding of ...
A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...
The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.
I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...
NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our ...
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the ...