Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

The system, called PUNCH, (for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), will cover a massive amount of space called the heliosphere, the region of the space influenced by the Sun. "Our ...

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 sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the sun to ...

Voyager 2, launched in 1977, will soon find out what the Solar System is like in, and beyond, the heliosphere NASA's Voyager 2 probe has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside ...