A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive ...

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is forcing scientists to rethink how the Sun’s magnetic machinery actually works. A series of ...

Following liftoff, spacecraft powers up as boosters fall away and astronauts prepare for trans-lunar injection.

The four Artemis II astronauts in Orion are preparing for their lunar flyby on Monday, April 6, during which they be eclipsed ...

Four giant solar ‘wings’ will provide power for the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years, due to launch later ...

If astronauts travelling in Orion – the spacecraft used on Artemis II – receive advance word of a solar storm, they are ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

Cosmos 1, a $4 million experiment intended to show that a so-called solar sail can make a controlled flight, lifted off at 12:46 p.m. PDT as organizers of the private project monitored the launch from ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its sideways rotation, intricate ring ...