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Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.

Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

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Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

Scientists have detected a narrow structure of hot plasma extending from the Local Hot Bubble surrounding the Sun toward ...

Using the combined might of spacecraft scattered across the Solar System, scientists have built the most detailed map yet of the boundary where the Sun's magnetic push no longer accelerates the solar ...

The Sun's magnetic field does impact the movement of plasma on the Sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount ...

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Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...