As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

The secrets of the solar wind will soon come under renewed scrutiny thanks to the launch of an upcoming NASA mission that will gaze at the sun and the inner solar system. The mission, called PUNCH ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos ... streaming from our sun washes over everything in the solar system, including us. It is the solar wind.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

The NASA mission will see four satellites sent into orbit A "pioneering ... there become the solar wind. Four suitcase-sized spacecraft will be used to build 3D maps of the corona, as part ...

A three-dimensional map of the way galaxies ... to capture wider views of solar wind, the hot plasma spewing from the sun’s corona that washes over the solar system. Each satellite has three ...

And it helps that the missions are going to a similar place: a sun-synchronous orbit around ... enable them to make maps of features in the corona and across the solar system.

It will also produce a “Cloud Map” of Sun-interplanetary space, according to the presentation. The Solar Polar-orbit Observatory will be equipped with a suite of advanced instruments to carry ...