Although never actually observed, it has long been assumed that as our Solar System careers through the Universe, the heliosphere, or solar bubble, has a tail trailing behind it like a comet's. For ...

Data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), allowed a team of international researchers to provide the most definitive analyses, theories, and ...

GREENBELT, Md. — The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The ...

The results are in from the first all-sky map created by NASA's new Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, which launched in October 2008. While orbiting Earth, IBEX monitors incoming ...

Since its October 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has mapped the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, surpassing its mission ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Roughly the size of a card table, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is the latest in NASA ...

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 Nasa craft has detected neutral 'alien' particles entering our solar system from interstellar space. The discovery, by the agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) ship, gives the most ...

A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with ...