The Northern New Mexico lab designed two of 10 instruments aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.

The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like ...

New data from NASA’s Cassini, Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer missions show that the heliosphere — the bubble of the sun’s magnetic influence that surrounds the inner solar system — may be ...

What is the Heliosphere? What are the conditions that exist outside of it? The first question is simply a matter of definition while the second has been the subject of scientific inquiry for the last ...

When you hit your 40s, it's only natural to want to try new things. That little platitude holds true not only for those suffering midlife crises, but also, apparently, for at least one spacecraft ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...