The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The aircraft has spent the last few days approximately 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

Between now and Crew-10's new target launch date of March 12, Endurance must undergo refurbishment, trunk stacking, ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

If everything goes according to plan, NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program will produce its first results as soon as this year, as the demonstrator plane built for it, the X-59 ...

Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 June 2025 (Courtesy: NASA/APL) NASA has confirmed that ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The ...

Lockheed Martin has been building the X-59 for NASA, as part of a project to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft that can break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms ...

NASA scientists will wait for a signal from the aircraft which is expected to be ... Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe’s mission was to head to the centre of our solar system.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected a sample from the planet that the space agency has described as "unlike anything we've ever seen before." It is the 26th sample from the rover and it ...