Another mission to study the sun’s corona, PUNCH or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will share the ride to space with SPHEREx. Michael Roston is a senior staff editor for science.

The PUNCH mission, which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is made of four small satellites — three wide-field imagers and a narrow-field imager — that'll be ...

The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the yellow ...

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 ...

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), a space telescope, is situated on a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the ...

The PUNCH mission (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will observe the sun’s corona as it transitions into the solar wind. PUNCH is a constellation of four small satellites heading to ...

Why did President Trump fire many of the board members of the Kennedy Center, and name himself chairman and his former Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell as president? Grenell was interviewed at ...

Chinese space officials have previously stated that a mission to the head and tail of the heliosphere is being considered, with the aim of reaching a distance of 100 astronomical units (with 1 AU ...

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 ...