The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has ...

NASA set up Parker's record-setting path back in November when the spacecraft made its final pass of Venus. The solar system's second planet has seen numerous visits by Parker, which uses the ...

“Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” notes Nicky Fox, head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge ... Having an early-warning system for solar flares could help us protect infrastructure and technology ...

"Getting this close to the sun is a historic moment in our quest to uncover the mysteries of our nearest star," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "By ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified flickering coronal loops in the sun's atmosphere that precede large solar flares. These variations in extreme ...