The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

Aetherflux, a startup founded by a physicist with a background in financial services, announced it was developing a novel space-based solar power technology. Instead of the large arrays in ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Electrical engineer Ed Tate was skeptical of proposals for space-based solar power when he initially heard about the concept ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

In a striking new finding, astronomers have uncovered what they say is the strongest evidence yet of life existing beyond our solar system. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers from ...

China has unveiled a long-term planetary exploration roadmap for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial ...

NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...