Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office ... “That line is called the ecliptic, and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the sun.

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

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

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset ... of-round and tilted from their mean plane by not too much and not too little ...