NASA plans a mission to study the Sun’s magnetic heart and its hidden storms

NASA has chosen a proposed solar mission for further investigation as part of its Small Explorer program, continuing early ...
Yahoo

NASA And SpaceX Collaborate On Critical Solar Wind, Space Weather Mission

Space exploration is heating up, and America is once again leading the charge – thanks in large part to SpaceX and its revolutionary approach to launching rockets. Earlier this month, SpaceX described ...
Gizmodo

NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...
Florida Today

What is NASA's IMAP? Solar science-packed mission to launch on SpaceX rocket Tuesday

Three NASA missions are set to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study the Sun's influence. The primary mission, IMAP, will travel one million miles from Earth to study the heliosphere and ...
Science Focus

Our Solar System has a wall. And NASA is about to reveal its true shape

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
University of Delaware

Mapping out the heliosphere, Earth’s protective bubble

Editor's note: NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 a.m. for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions. Much as ...