NASA's Parker Solar Probe explores the sun's mysteries, revealing new insights into solar phenomena and the solar wind.

TBD, 1st half of 2025 (Delayed from 2024): United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on USSF-106, the rocket’s first Department ... United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy on the NROL-70 mission ...

Rocket Lab has made a deal with a European company aiming to give Ukraine more satellite support in the war with Russia. The New Zealand-US company was selected by Airbus Constellation Satellites to ...

Since 2018, Parker Solar Probe has been sampling a largely unexplored regime near the sun, achieving a record-setting closest approach of 3.83 million miles (< 9 solar radii) from the solar surface on ...

Some examples include United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket launch and SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. From Cape Canaveral, Florida, to West Palm Beach, Florida, it's about 150 miles.

Eugene Parker, who discovered solar wind in the 1950s, attends a NASA pre-briefing on the solar probe that bears his name in 2018 | Source: NASA/Kim Shiflett Given that two of the most dramatic ...

and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital ...

Here's what we know about the blown SpaceX spacecraft. Just before sunset, a 403-foot rocket launched from Texas. SpaceX successfully captured the first-stage booster back at the pad using giant ...

composed of both the Starship vehicle and Super Heavy rocket, launched just after 6:30 p.m. ET Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to USA TODAY Thursday that it ...

The gargantuan Starship and Super Heavy just hit Max Q — a pivotol moment during any rocket launch. Max Q is the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure. It occurs at the time when the rocket is ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched ... Earth's orbit over the Indian Ocean after a one-hour flight. Its Super Heavy booster, which helps it leave the ground, did manage ...