Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...

NASA is gearing up to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission aimed at exploring the farthest reaches of our solar system. Scheduled for launch on September 23, IMAP ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission has successfully captured its first light observations, marking a significant step toward unveiling the mysteries of space weather and ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch three spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission to study the sun's influence throughout the solar system, from Earth's atmosphere to the edge of interstellar space. A ...

This story has been updated to reflect a new scheduled launch time, Weds., Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket will break the bonds of gravity while carrying the Interstellar Mapping ...

This article has been updated to reflect a change in the launch day/time. A suite of three missions which will study the Sun’s influence on our Earth and solar system are set to launch next week. NASA ...

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission is scheduled for launch, deploying to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point to map the heliosphere. IMAP will utilize ten scientific ...

This week on Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Brooke Edwards talk about NASA's upcoming IMAP mission to study the solar wind and the heliosphere around our solar system. Also, ...

Recently, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with the agency's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-1) spacecraft, were ...