heliosphere

Mysterious Ribbon at Edge of Solar System is Changing

A year ago, researchers from the IBEX mission – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer – announced the discovery of an unexpected…

14 years ago

Cassini/IBEX Data Changes View of Heliosphere Shape

Though the Cassini mission has focused intently on scientific exploration of Saturn and its moons, data taken by the spacecraft…

14 years ago

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System

[/caption] Since it launched a year ago, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has been monitoring heliosphere and how our Sun…

14 years ago

What is Interplanetary Space?

[/caption] The region of space within our Solar System is called interplanetary space, also known as interplanetary medium. Most people are…

15 years ago