Just before midnight on Sunday, a spacecraft will depart from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to the sun. Known as Solar Orbiter, this spacecraft will spend the next seven years dipping in and ...

NASA's new Solar Orbiter is set to transform what we know about the Sun — and help protect the technology humans depend on every day in the process. On February 9, NASA and the European Space Agency ...

A new crater has appeared on the moon, and it was likely created when Russia’s uncrewed Luna 25 mission crashed into the lunar surface. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and released ...

A not-to-scale representation of ISRO’s Venus orbiter mission Shukrayaan. Credit: ISRO MUMBAI, India — India’s space agency aims to launch its Venus orbiter Shukrayaan in late 2024, more than a year ...

"It is very interesting 'bonus science' enabled by Solar Orbiter's orbit design." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

The Earth and moon viewed by Chang'e 5 from Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 in April 2021. Credit: CNSA/CLEP HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...

The NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft, which launched Sunday, will spend the next decade closely observing the sun. By Kenneth Chang A rocket carrying Solar Orbiter, a probe that will take ...