Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging from basic science to technology development.

The TRACERS mission—short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites—aims to study how ...

One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

The TRACERS mission comprises twin satellites designed to investigate how surges in the solar wind trigger magnetic ...

The next satellites SpaceX helps to deliver to orbit from Vandenberg won't be its own, but rather two of NASA's on a ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

Six years after the University of Iowa landed $115 million from NASA to research how solar wind interacts with the Earth's ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning ...