The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...

Multi-spacecraft scientific missions for space physics have been flown since the 1960s with early missions such as IMP, VELA, ...

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

“As the galactic tide acts to decouple bodies from the scattered disk it creates a spiral structure in physical space that is roughly 15,000 astronomical units in length,” writes Nesvorný. “The spiral ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four spacecraft comprise the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere mission, otherwise known as PUNCH. The goal of the two NASA missions will be to create a three-dimensional map of more ...

An international research team has uncovered this journey through the Orion star-forming complex, part of the Radcliffe Wave structure. The experts propose that the Solar System’s passage through this ...

The spacecraft is sharing its ride to space with NASA's $150-million PUNCH (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is a constellation of four suitcase-sized ...