NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

By flying through the solar corona, Parker Solar Probe can take measurements that help scientists better understand how the region gets so hot, trace the origin of the solar wind (a constant flow of ...

SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 rocket with its first Starlink mission of the new year, sending 24 satellites to ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

India's space agency says it is planning a record 10 orbital missions, as well as its first commercial effort, during 2025 ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged Tuesday in his New Year’s address to the nation that his decision to dissolve ...

Not all December space missions were successful. The Japanese startup Space One, for example, saw its Kairos rocket self-destruct shortly after lifting off from Kushimoto in Japan’s Wakayama ...

11 - Google releases its annual “Year in Search," rounding up the top trending queries entered into its namesake search ...