By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the comet in the footage. Credit: NASA/STEREO/Karl Battams | edited by Space.com's ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured comet Comet 96P/Machholz latest flyby of the Sun. See a time-lapse of the footage here. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's St ...

A bold proposal would send a spacecraft plunging close to the sun to slingshot after interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an ...

Paul Patterson was the first longstanding Black employee, and first Black executive, in Chicago Bears history. Jack M Silverstein explores Patterson’s journey here.

I think, therefore I am,” philosopher René Descartes famously said in 1637. To think means to be alive. Learning how to think ...

Explore the transformation of insurance from Babylonian contracts to modern policies, highlighting key developments like fire and life insurance.

The astrolabe, an intricate brass instrument made in 11th century Spain, was used for charting the position of the stars. NMS said the object is one of Europe’s oldest surviving signed and dated ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...