It is easy to think of our solar neighborhood as a tight little cluster of planets, but the reality is far more expansive. Beyond Neptune, a crowd of frozen bits and pieces lingers in the Kuiper Belt, ...

ABOVE: The light spectrum that SPHEREx is capable of seeing The telescope will capture around 600 photos every day for 2 years, in the hopes of mapping the entire sky 4 times (once every 6 months), ...

PUNCH: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sun’s atmosphere Alongside SPHEREx, the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission was also launched. PUNCH comprises four small ...

The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites will observe the Sun and its environment to help scientists better understand the effect of solar winds on our solar system. The ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

31 news conference panel. SPHEREx’s carpooling buddy is the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) — four suitcase-sized satellites each weighing 88 pounds (40 kg) that will ...

NASA 's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions will be aboard a ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...

Solar physics is the study of the fundamental processes occurring in the sun. Primarily this is related to the dynamics of plasmas and their interplay with the sun’s magnetic fields, and how ...

The experts propose that the Solar System’s passage through this zone could have briefly compressed the heliosphere – the protective bubble surrounding our planetary system – and delivered a greater ...

The Falcon 9 rocket also will usher into space four Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) satellites to observe the Sun and unlock mysteries about the effects of solar winds.

The fact that the Voyager spacecraft are the only two human-made objects to make it to interstellar space means that the data they collect is unique. Thus, the decision to switch off any ...