SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the Sun to ...

Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that ...

NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar ...

Currently at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the mission is awaiting launch on March 11, 2025 alongside another NASA mission, SPHEREx, marking an exciting step forward in solar and astrophysical research ...

Update: Delayed again. Now targeting Friday, March 7 for launch and March 6 for prelaunch news briefing. NASA and SpaceX are ...

Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute headquartered in San Antonio, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11.  NASA’s ...

But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the sun, is over a hundred times ...

This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

Update by edhat staff March 12, 2025 On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m., Falcon 9 launched NASA’s SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...

NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics observatory mission launched aboard a rocket that also carried satellites for the agency's PUNCH mission.

After the team found and fixed flaws during pre-launch chores, the Falcon 9 rocket and its cargo of five NASA satellites were ...