The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rick Kohnert, Scott Robertson, and Scott Knappmiller with the two rocket payloads for noctilucent cloud particles. Dusty plasma is plasma containing small particles in suspension. In industry, dust is ...

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...