The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward decoding our star's elusive behavior and, eventually ...

Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

Currently at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the mission is awaiting launch on March 11, 2025 alongside another NASA mission, ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The solar wind is matter that is blown from our sun ... with the interstellar medium – the very tenuous gas and plasma between the stars. This is made up of just a few particles per cubic ...

"We expect we'll revolutionize how space weather is forecasted." The secrets of the solar wind will soon come under renewed scrutiny thanks to the launch of an upcoming NASA mission that will gaze ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

and Solar Wind Plasma Analyser (SWA) to track and measure solar activity. With each new observation, Solar Orbiter sheds light on the Sun’s most perplexing mysteries. These tiny jets could be ...