A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...
NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.
NASA has selected a proposed solar mission for further study as part of its Small Explorer programme, extending early design work rather than approvin.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...
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 ...
Editor's note: NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 a.m. for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions. Much as ...