KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

A month before arriving at its destination, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has already begun to collect science data from each of its 10 instruments, NASA announced this ...

CHARLOTTE — A man was injured Tuesday on I-85 near W.T. Harris Boulevard after a trailer detached from a vehicle and struck the worker’s truck. The incident occurred when a car hit debris on the ...

Pulling out. Let's watch that. In the meantime, IMAP has switched off their RF transmitter. They are no longer receiving any data from the IMAP spacecraft. That's intentional. And there go the arms as ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...

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 ...

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Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new mission has launched to help astronomers better understand it. Created by the solar wind, a ...

A landmark NASA mission led by Princeton researchers will launch a rocket on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending a probe towards the sun to study the heliosphere, ...

NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida on Wednesday morning. Joining IMAP on its way to Lagrange Point 1 are two additional ...