A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have sent warm Christmas greetings from space, sharing their festive plans. Christmas in Orbit The video ...

Nasa’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday, flying closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures of more than 930 degrees ...

Despite being stranded thousands of miles from Earth, NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni ... Why do you have Christmas hats?????” Someone else ranted. Williams and Wilmore left Earth on June ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made a historic attempt to circle the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, which, if successful, would be the closest-ever attempt to do so. The agency will remain ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made a historic attempt to circle the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, which, if successful, would be the closest-ever attempt to do so. The agency will ...

Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP NASA is set to make history this Christmas Eve after attempting its nearest ever flyby of the sun. The space agency’s Parker Solar probe was supposed to ...

The spacecraft was launched in Aug. 2018 with the mission to help further our understanding of our solar system’s star by taking samples of its atmosphere, according to Nasa. Its flyby on Christmas ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to ...

The stranded NASA astronauts are feeling festive this Christmas, despite being thousands of miles away from earth. Sunita "Suni" Williams—who has been stranded in space alongside partner Barry ...