On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is set to launch to the International Space Station to explore new details about ...

Nasa/University of Arizona Bennu formed roughly 4.5 million years ago alongside our solar system. Its age and composition—rich in organic molecules—make it a prime target for study.

NASA's experimental Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is different, though. This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words ... That small streak of light represented the end of a ...

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), these meteors travel ... When the comet passes through the inner solar system, it sheds rocky dust and ice that produce ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link NASA is serious about searching for alien life, even within our own solar system. On Monday, the agency launched a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, has been hailed as one of the most likely locations for aliens to exist in our solar system. Now NASA may have the chance to find out, as its ambitious ...