Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute headquartered in San Antonio, ...

Using a state-of-the-art computer simulation of the heliosphere, our paper showed that during such a passage, the heliosphere would shrink from its current extent of about 120 times the Earth-Sun ...

The mission, known as Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), will be the third major ... Mains Examination: General Studies-I: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art ...

It's hoped that by capturing images of the Sun's corona and the solar wind together, scientists will be able to better understand a region of space known as the inner heliosphere. The region is ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers three group shows that delve into the rich traditions of Asian art. The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion ...

Packed alongside Spherex on its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was Punch, Nasa's $150 million (£116 million) Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – a "constellation of four suitcase ...

PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), for its part, will spend two years studying the sun’s outer atmosphere to better understand solar winds, which play a key role in ...

Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space. But there will come a time when amassing distance is all they are ...

This could have compressed the heliosphere, the vast bubble surrounding the solar system inflated by the solar wind. The heliosphere shields the solar system from cosmic radiation. The solar ...

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 ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...