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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

The solar wind is a ubiquitous feature of our solar system. This relentless high-speed flow of charged particles from the sun fills interplanetary space. On Earth, it triggers geomagnetic storms ...

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 ...

NASA's Voyager spacecraft has uncovered a cosmic marvel: a blazing 'wall' of heat beyond our Solar System, hinting at the mysteries of interstellar space ...