The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at least 1,000 light-years, radiates X-rays due to its searing million-degree ...
Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...
These particles can affect the space around Earth and may even alter how the solar wind reaches the Earth. Supernovae and the interstellar medium may have also influenced the origins of life and ...