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

A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

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

NASA TRACERS mission is set to study how Earth's magnetic field protects us from solar storms and space weather. The mission ...

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

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 ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a ...