"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

Doing so could tell scientists more about the heliosphere’s shape and its interaction with the local interstellar medium, the space environment beyond the heliosphere. In 1977, NASA launched the ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

NASA's NIAC program is investing in visionary ideas that could revolutionize space exploration. From fusion-powered ...

Heliosphere: The region of space influenced by the solar wind, which extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: A region of the solar system beyond Neptune, populated with many ...

And then another factor is that there are a whole bunch of really cool science missions that are designed to study various aspects of the heliosphere that are all due to launch in the coming year.