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 ...

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 ...

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

a. Topics historically part of solar and space physics decadal surveys, including: i. The structure of the Sun and the properties of its outer layers in their static and active states, ii. The ...

An illustration of the solar system (not to scale), including the sun, inner rocky planets, asteroid belt, the outer gassy planets, and—beyond Neptune—the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud.

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

The Sun is a star that constantly emits a steady stream of plasma – highly energized ionized gas – called the solar wind. In addition to the constant solar wind , the Sun also occasionally releases ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

An interstellar probe could help scientists answer fundamental questions about how the Sun influences Earth, space and other planets in the solar system.

the heliosphere-a protective bubble created by the Sun's solar wind-extends well past Pluto's orbit, with the heliopause serving as the boundary that separates solar winds from interstellar winds. The ...

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 ...