Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch three spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission to study the sun's influence throughout the solar system, from Earth's atmosphere to the edge of interstellar space. A ...

Three NASA missions are set to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study the Sun's influence. The primary mission, IMAP, will travel one million miles from Earth to study the heliosphere and ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, announced the discovery of something truly spectacular: a mysterious object that appeared to ...

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 ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

This article has been updated to reflect a change in the launch day/time. A suite of three missions which will study the Sun’s influence on our Earth and solar system are set to launch next week. NASA ...