This story has been updated to reflect a new scheduled launch time, Weds., Sept. 24. Princeton astrophysicists David McComas and Jamie Rankin are two of the leaders of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and ...

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 ...

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 suite of three missions which will study the Sun’s influence on our Earth and solar system are set to launch next week. NASA’s IMAP mission, alongside two other solar science-packed spacecraft, have ...

Watch the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with Bandwagon 4 mission ...

This spacecraft is one of three dedicated to studying solar wind and its effects on space weather. It launched today (Sept. 24) Recently, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), ...