Astronomers have captured the first views of a young sun-like star blowing bubbles, offering a rare glimpse at how our solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORNING’S LAUNCH. IMAP IS GOING TO STUDY THE HELIOSPHERE. THE STUDY, HOW IT INTERACTS WITH THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM OUTSIDE, AND GIVE US ALL KINDS OF GREAT INSIGHTS INTO HOW IT IT’S AFFECTED BY SOLAR ...

Only two manmade objects have traveled beyond the far edges of the solar system: NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of space created by the Sun, lies the interstellar ...

Physicists have revealed a refined new model of the heliosphere—the vast region around the Sun extending more than twice as far as Pluto—that depicts it as a crescent-shaped magnetic force-field ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory captured a young Sun-like star blowing a giant X-ray bubble, revealing for the first time how ...

NASA's twin Voyager probes launched into space more than 41 years ago. Voyager 1 left a crucial part of the solar system called the heliosphere — the main region of the sun's influence — in August ...

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

Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new mission has launched to help astronomers better understand it. Created by the solar wind, a ...