NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Scientists Uncover a Galactic Encounter That May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
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A Neurodivergent Journey, Armored Dinosaurs and the Dark Sector
In the April issue of SciAm, follow a man’s journey to a diagnosis, learn about exciting new schizophrenia treatments, and ...
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Past, Present and Future Of Multispacecraft Measurements For Space Physics
Multi-spacecraft scientific missions for space physics have been flown since the 1960s with early missions such as IMP, VELA, ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...
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Here's the launch plan for NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions: 'Liftoff is just the beginning'
"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together ...
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The Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled Earth
The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
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NASA’s New Space Weather Mission Goes Live—And It Could Change Everything
NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, ...
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Our solar system once drifted through Orion’s star-forming region
The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...
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NASA will soon launch PUNCH to study how the Sun influences the space around us
NASA is now targeting an evening launch window for PUNCH and SPHEREx that opens at 10:09 P.M. EST on Tuesday, March 4. On March 2, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Polarimeter to ...
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The galactic journey of our solar system
This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere ... study raises the possibility of a link between the past traverse of the solar system through its galactic ...