A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

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

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million years ago. This cosmic journey may have altered Earth’s environment, ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

The instruments that remained powered on well beyond the last planetary flyby were those the science team considered important for studying the solar system's heliosphere, a protective bubble of ...

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 ...