Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

The third known visitor from interstellar space, comet 3I/ATLAS, is putting on a show that plays out in high‑energy light instead of visible fireworks. As it barrels through the inner solar system, ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) reached the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) on January 10, 2026, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun, according to NASA.

NASA has selected a proposed solar mission for further study as part of its Small Explorer programme, extending early design ...

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 ...