While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

Space, as far as physics is concerned, is a soundless place. There is no air, no wind, no whisper — only vacuum. And yet, on ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

American space agency NASA says Blue Origin will launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) ...

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather, NASA said.

Four proposed sungazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study suggests ...

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...

Blue Origin reveals new reusable first stage of the New Glenn rocket crucial for NASA's upcoming Mars mission.

It’s not every day a student experiment hitches a ride aboard a NASA rocket, but that’s exactly what a University of Delaware student team achieved earlier this week. The Terrier-Improved Malemute ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

Live updates from the NASA IMAP mission which launched at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 24. from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.