In a groundbreaking effort to study the Sun up close, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unprecedented data on the source ...
Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental ...
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.
While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...
New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...
BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...
Despite being relatively nearby, very few space probes have visited the solar system's innermost planet. Any spacecraft aiming to study Mercury must accelerate to incredible speeds, and that can take ...