"PUNCH is going to provide an unprecedented three-dimensional view of the corona as it turns into the solar wind and fills our solar system," Nicholeen Viall, PUNCH's mission scientist from NASA's ...
Scientists are looking to better understand how the solar wind occurs and what effects are sustained because of it with a team of heliophysics spacecraft equipped with some of the most sensitive ...
NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists recently discovered that some of the most powerful "space winds" in the universe, blowing at 125 million mph from black holes could be killing galaxies.
While the solar wind protects Earth from other harmful particles coming from space, storms can also threaten our satellite and communications networks. The surface of the sun is blisteringly hot ...
As Ya-Ting Liao, PhD, watched from a monitor on Earth, an astronaut at the International Space Station ignited a cotton-fiberglass fabric and let it burn in microgravity, launching an experiment ...
From expansive solar and wind farms to storage facilities filled to the brim with batteries, our crop of green-energy technology takes up a whole lot more space to generate the same amount of ...