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

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

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Narrow Field Imager (NFI) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as a part of NASA's Polarimeter to Unify ...

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, ...

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 ...

Other instruments have remained under power while studying the solar system's heliosphere, which NASA describes as a "bubble of solar wind and magnetic fields created by the Sun." The remaining ...

The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years, collecting precious data on the vast cosmos. All that traveling has taken a toll on the farthest human ...

The wall of fire outside the solar system is caused by electromagnetic EM radiation ... we wouldn't know if what we were seeing with Voyager 1 was characteristic of the entire heliosphere or specific ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...