A partial solar eclipse is set to take place today, an event considered spiritually significant, especially in India.

But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month. The fire started by the ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is constructed to find out the different aspects of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, to ...

The hazards facing lunar astronauts are many. There’s the radiation, the temperature extremes, the psychological challenges ...

A common suggestion for pregnant women during a solar eclipse is to stay indoors. This popular belief among many cultures stems from concerns about excessive heat or harmful UV radiation during the ...

Interestingly, the Leonidas system has been compared to a Star Trek-style shield due to its ability to eliminate drones ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that ...