Kicking off Thanksgiving Day for the 99th time, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will wind its way through the streets of Manhattan with its blend of floats, bands, Santa Claus and the ...

Snoopy. Bart Simpson. Betty Boop. The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will soon bring together an unrivaled cast of balloon characters, along with floats, musical acts and people of all ages — ...

A colossal piece of NASA research kit landed on a peaceful family farm in West Texas this week. The Walter family were going about their usual Thursday routine when an enormous parachute appeared in ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

MORNING’S LAUNCH. IMAP IS GOING TO STUDY THE HELIOSPHERE. THE STUDY, HOW IT INTERACTS WITH THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM OUTSIDE, AND GIVE US ALL KINDS OF GREAT INSIGHTS INTO HOW IT IT’S AFFECTED BY SOLAR ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere. This extraordinary environment is basically the sun's sphere of influence. It ...

Editor's note: NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 a.m. for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions. Much as ...

Falcon Heene became the biggest news story in the country in October 2009 when he was reported to be floating over Colorado in a homemade balloon — then his family's story really blew up Jessica Sager ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading scientist on the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium, died on ...