Space agency’s Parker Solar Probe flies closer to the sun than any spacecraft during the first of three planned flybys.

The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, laying out a long-term plan to expand microgravity ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Space Solar, a U.K. startup, is collaborating with two other companies to build an energy-generating solar system in space.

Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

Laser beams powered by the sun are one small step closer to becoming a reality after researchers received funding to develop ...

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun's corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.