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

Narrow Field Imager (NFI) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as a part of NASA's Polarimeter to Unify ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

The secrets of the solar wind will soon come under renewed scrutiny ... which stands for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is a constellation of four suitcase-sized satellites ...

IMAP will study the solar wind as it journeys to the outer boundary of the heliosphere, called the heliopause, located about 120 astronomical units (17.95 billion kilometers, or 11.15 billion ...

The sun, for all its glitz, tends to hide behind a veil of mystery. For instance, its outer atmosphere, the corona, appears to be hotter than its surface — like, way hotter — and scientists ...

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

on different planetary systems. • Comparative studies of solar wind interactions within the inner heliosphere, including comparisons with Earth. • Understanding of solar wind impacts on small rocky ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

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

It will conduct global, 3D observations of the inner heliosphere to investigate the solar corona's evolution into the solar wind. The mission is scheduled to conduct science for the next two years ...

But it is much more active than even that, thanks to the solar wind. The idea of solar wind might not be intuitive at first glance, but it is one of the most fascinating features of our Sun.