The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the ...

The sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the ...

The space physics research group at the University of Helsinki studies Sun–Earth physics and space weather. We develop numerical simulations of the Sun’s corona, the heliosphere and the Earth’s ...

The mission, called PUNCH, which stands for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is a constellation of four suitcase-sized satellites that are set to blast off for a sun ...