NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Scientists Figured Out How to Probe the Boundary of the Solar System
While NASA has sent two probes out past our heliosphere—Voyager 1 and 2—there’s still a lot we don’t know about the protective shield around the Solar System. A proposed Interstellar Probe ...
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Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
The heliosphere is so large that objects in the Kuiper Belt orbit closer to the Sun than to the closest boundary of the heliosphere. As distant stars explode, they expel large amounts of radiation ...
Scientists Uncover a Galactic Encounter That May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
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News on heliosphere
But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the sun, is over a hundred times ...
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NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Voyager 1 reached the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar ...