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

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

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.

What is IMAP? NASA to set sail to study the solar wind, solar system's heliosphere NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and ...

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 robotic space mission is scheduled for launch later this month to study what’s known as space weather, and the University of Iowa is the lead institution on the near-$166-million project, called ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance (Tracer) mission is to provide fly-through data from interactions between the solar wind and Earth’s protective ...