The Princeton-led NASA mission has officially begun its science mission to study the sun and everything it touches. Princeton marked the occasion with a panel discussion, science talks and a reception ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left to right, this graphic illustrates how NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and ...

What would it take to accelerate to Interstellar space by a NASA spacecraft deliberately, within a time that is short enough that the people who designed it and studied it will be available to analyze ...

A steady stream of particles forms a huge bubble around the Sun. Now, such a structure has been found around a Sun-like star ...

A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught "blowing bubbles" in the galaxy. Astronomers using NASA ...

SwRI developed the CoDICE instrument for IMAP with a unique thermal management design to address extreme temperature variations ranging from the intense heat of direct sunlight to the frigid cold of ...

Scientists have found a protective bubble around a young star, HD 61005. This astrosphere, similar to our Sun's heliosphere, ...

The star that is at the center of our solar system has become in recent years a focal point in our space exploration efforts, with several missions dedicated to studying it making their way into the ...

NASA astronomers have detected a 200-AU-wide X-ray-emitting bubble around the young Sun-like star HD 61005. The powerful ...