The Polarimetry to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will be launched by SpaceX on February 28. PUNCH will be a constellation of four, suitcase-sized satellites each weighing about 64 ...

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 ...

Grenell was interviewed at the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday by Politico‘s Dasha Burns, and his appointment to the Kennedy Center was one of the big questions. Grenell, who also ...

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 ...