Decadal surveys of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine bring together leading experts to identify a field’s most compelling science challenges and frontiers for the next ...

This story has been updated to reflect a new scheduled launch time, Weds., Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket will break the bonds of gravity while carrying the Interstellar Mapping ...

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Late on Friday, Nov. 7, Ryan French was flying from Denver to Chicago when he saw something surprising from his window seat: glowing green and purple lights in the skies high above the Midwest. For ...

This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our solar system from similar emission reaching us from deep space, using data ...

Solar storm Schematic showing how the Sun’s magnetic field and releases of plasma directly affect Earth. (Courtesy: SOHO (ESA & NASA)) An artificial buffer composed of a photoionizing material ...

The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild, and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar flares, giant explosions on the sun, can send out streams of energy that ...

After War Gundam X's Satellite Cannon shares its physics with Space-Based Solar Power -- the real energy concept Caltech ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...