Southwest Research Institute has delivered the novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument for final ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Voyager spacecrafts go beyond the solar system and garner several intriguing insights about the uncharted territory.

The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...

NASA has revealed that they have sent a man-made machine further than they ever have before, and they said they made an odd ...

IBEX is still observing, having lasted much longer than originally planned, and the spacecraft has managed to gather data throughout a complete 11-year solar cycle to watch the heliosphere’s ...

As one of the five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of the Sun and ...

The heliosphere, or the giant field generated by the Sun's magnetic field surrounds all of the Solar System's planets. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab ...

These objects are near the edge of the heliosphere of the Solar System, where it transitions to interstellar space. The heliosphere is formed by the outflow of charged particles, or solar wind ...

The solar system may have passed through dense interstellar clouds 2 million years ago, altering Earth’s climate ... with it, the heliosphere, and the rest of the solar system.