As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is NASA's next Small Explorer. The Explorer Program develops low-cost, rapidly developed space science investigations.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday (Oct. 19, 2008).

As the Southwest Research Institute-led Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission enters the implementation phase, the spacecraft and instrument designs are being completed, and prototype hardware is ...

NASA launched the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft last year to investigate the edges of the heliosphere — the insulating bubble the sun creates around the solar system. IBEX ...

June 19, 2009. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of fast hydrogen atoms coming from the Moon, following decades of speculation and searching ...

When it comes to studying the region of interstellar space just beyond our solar system, nothing seems to work quite the way scientists imagined. A strange interstellar wind blows through our ...

This intel was gathered by NASA’s Earth-orbiting Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, which was launched in 2008 with the intention of studying the interactions between the ...

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission will be launched in 2008. IBEX is the first mission designed to detect the edge of the Solar System.

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission — the first designed to globally image the extreme edge of our solar system — is ready for launch on a Pegasus rocket from Kwajalein ...

More information: Eric J. Zirnstein et al, Oblique and rippled heliosphere structures from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, Nature Astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01798-6.

NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar Boundary EXplorer) orbits Earth but tracks changes at the edge of the Solar System. Astronomers made use of a particular event back in 2014 when the pressure of the ...