NASA has had incredible success with its solar missions. On December 14, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first ...

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission is scheduled for launch, deploying to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point to map the heliosphere. IMAP will utilize ten scientific ...

On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the four satellites of its exciting new sun-studying mission, PUNCH, have successfully reached their stations in orbit around our planet. They all lie along ...

For thirty years, SOHO has watched the Sun from a stable perch in space, revealing the inner workings of our star and surviving crises that nearly ended the mission. Its long-term observations ...

In September, NASA announced that the threat of solar storms is reaching a new high, noting that the activities on the Sun's surface have intensified in the past decade. Solar storms can lead to some ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as the rare interstellar visitor moves closer to Earth.

Two NASA heliophysics missions launched together in September are performing well, while a third mission launched earlier ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission observed comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) during its solar pass, capturing images of the comet’s tail and movement from October to November 2025, revealing solar wind effects.

The Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora, or CINEMA, mission will fly nine smallsats in polar orbits to study the Earth’s magnetotail. Credit: JHUAPL WASHINGTON — NASA has ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...