One mission headed for its day in the sun is NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 ... rather than reflected sunlight to propel a craft. This change could lead to a smaller sail ...

Probes are space crafts with cameras to send images back ... that means if you put together everything else in the Solar System, the Sun would be 99 times more massive! Astronomers think the ...

The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during ... A unique cooling system designed by the Applied Physics Laboratory pumps water through the craft’s solar arrays to keep them ...

“With proper design, these tiny probes would reach the Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation — just ...

On Earth, total solar eclipses are ... by the majesty of our solar system. For scientists, eclipses offer fleeting opportunities to unravel the mysteries of our sun. Now, dual spacecraft set ...