Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...
NASA's Van Allen Probe A is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, ...
NASA's IMAP mission, launching in late September from KSC, will study solar wind and its impact on Earth. IMAP will travel to Lagrange Point 1, a million miles from Earth, to collect data and provide ...
The Sun has never looked quite like this. With a quartet of small satellites flying in formation, NASA’s PUNCH mission is stitching together a seamless, cinematic view of solar eruptions as they leave ...
A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday evening after more than a decade in orbit, according to projections from the agency and U.S. Space Force. The spacecraft, Van ...