The solar system moves through a local galactic cloud at a speed of 50,000 miles per hour, creating an interstellar wind of particles, some of which can travel all the way toward Earth to provide ...

Earth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere and led to the development of multiple ice ages, researchers suggest. Astrophysicists ...

For our era at least it’s perhaps the final frontier. The boundary of the heliosphere—a vast “bubble” around the Sun that divides the Solar System from deep space—has been measured and mapped for the ...

Data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed.

A team of scientists, including seven from the University of New Hampshire, present findings from six years of direct observations made by NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission of the ...

A group of scientists, for the very first time, has happened the gigantic protective bubble that is located near the edge of our solar system. This gigantic protective bubble is called the heliosphere ...

DURHAM, N.H. – On Thursday, October 15, scientists and engineers from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center will celebrate the announcement of the first major results from the ...

The Plasma Magnet work sponsored by NIAC in 2004-2005 developed a means of producing drag against the interplanetary solar wind or interstellar medium with high drag-to-mass ratio. A new class of ...

As a massive bubble encasing the solar system that stretches across tens of billions of miles and protects us from harmful interstellar radiation, there is a lot for us to learn about the heliosphere.

Pictorial view of the Earth's orbit and the interstellar flow, as seen from far above the North Pole. During the wind's journey through the Sun's gravitation, it is bent like a soccer ball that is ...

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 ...