The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

This surge in heat pushed temperatures beyond 500°C, far exceeding the usual atmospheric background of 350°C ... The findings suggest that planetary atmospheres across the solar system may be more ...

Measurements have been taken before of this background, but further out in the Solar System makes picking apart the data a little easier. In 2023, when New Horizons was around 57 AU from the Sun ...

NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded ... a far more significant presence than the background level of gas and dust diffused throughout the ...