At the edge of the solar system is a violent frontier where two cosmic powers clash. On one side is the solar wind, the constant flood of hot, charged particles flowing out of the sun at hundreds ...

One of the latest developments, a 3D map of the solar system's edge that took 13 years to create, revealed a few more secrets about this mysterious boundary, called the outer heliosphere.

We live in a bubble—literally. It’s called the heliosphere, and it’s made of tenuous plasma billowing from the sun. This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from ...

The solar system, as defined by the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may have a quite different shape than scientists had thought. In a paper published Oct. 15 in Science ...

Scientists have traditionally posited that the heliosphere, the huge bubble of charged particles that the sun blows around itself, has a rounded leading edge, where the solar system barrels ...

Today, she serves as the project scientist of a NASA mission to investigate the sun's particles and map their energy across the entire heliosphere, which is the region of space affected by the ...

Scientists hope that IBEX will tell us more about the shape of the solar system’s protective “bubble”, which is created by the solar wind and shields us from harmful galactic cosmic rays. The solar ...

NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Discovers a 'Wall of Fire' at the Edge of Solar System NASA has always strived to solve the ...

Southwest Research Institute has delivered the novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument for final ...

It suggests that the galaxy exerts more influence in our solar system’s border regions than previously suspected, warping the entire heliosphere. There is, however, one well-known spacecraft ...

As one of the five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of the Sun and ...

Because 350 AU is the distance limit of the team's wind-mapping method; the heliosphere could potentially extend much further behind the solar system than it appears on the team's map, meaning the ...