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

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; ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory is now in space for a two year year mission to create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky. The telescope left the ground on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad in ...

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

Tuesday (March 4) is shaping up to be a delightful day for space explorers, as not one but two major NASA missions are expected to take to the skies — and interestingly, though the spacecraft ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern ... team considered important for studying the solar system's heliosphere, a protective bubble of solar wind and magnetic fields ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space ... PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun ...

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

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 ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...