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

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Both missions are now waiting for signals from their respective spacecraft, which are currently orbiting approximately 644km above Earth's terminator line—the dynamic boundary between day and night.

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Packed alongside Spherex on its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was Punch, Nasa's $150 million (£116 million) Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – a "constellation of four suitcase ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

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 ...

Being launched along with SPHEREx is a constellation of satellites for NASA's PUNCH - short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere - mission to better understand the solar wind ...

During its two-year mission, the four satellites of PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to determine how it transitions ...

NASA has launched a new infrared space telescope into orbit that is set to rival the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in its unprecedented view of our universe. The Spectro-Photometer for the ...

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH for short, will study the inner solar system as well as the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, to better understand how its mass and ...