The solar wind sweeps through the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto, forming a large "bubble" called the heliosphere. According to NASA, the heliosphere is shaped like a long wind sock as ...

This region where it stalls out, poetically called the heliopause, marks the exterior boundary of the heliosphere, the volume of space dominated by the sun’s solar wind. Within the heliopause ...

NASA is preparing to launch PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), a groundbreaking mission that will use ...

neutral particles and dust stream steadily into the heliosphere from the local interstellar medium. These particles can affect the space around Earth and may even alter how the solar wind reaches ...

What Parker beamed back finally showed they were right. “The fast solar wind that fills the heliosphere originates from deep within regions of open magnetic field on the Sun called ‘coronal ...

The solar wind. Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/Metis & EUI Teams, V. Andretta and P. Romano/INAF Behold, the piping host particles of solar wind streaming from our Sun, caught in new footage from ...

This team thinks that it is possible a cold cloud of interstellar material could have once stymied the solar wind in such a way that the heliosphere was compressed. This might have, for a short ...

as well as more global observations of the solar wind from NASA’s upcoming Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, will help scientists glean even more precise informati ...

neutral particles and dust stream steadily into the heliosphere from the local interstellar medium. These particles can affect the space around Earth and may even alter how the solar wind reaches ...