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

The plasma coming off the Sun expands through space, along with the Sun’s magnetic field. Together they form the heliosphere within the surrounding local interstellar medium – the plasma ...

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

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 ...

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, and study solar ...

Tuesday (March 4) is shaping up to be a delightful day for space explorers, as not one but two major NASA missions are expected to take to the skies — and interestingly, though the spacecraft ...

For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...

The PUNCH mission, which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is made of four small satellites — three wide-field imagers and a narrow-field imager — that'll be ...

The Student Thermal Activity Energetic Module (STEAM) is a non-critical student built and operated instrument onboard one of the satellites on the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ...