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

NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four ...

Studying the background light that is illuminating its journey ... and dust of the inner Solar System. Studying background radiation, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), has helped ...

(Web Desk) - Astronomers have discovered four rocky planets, all significantly smaller than Earth, orbiting Barnard’s Star — ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

NASA's PUNCH mission has captured its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere, marking a key milestone in understanding ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star system, which is about 4.25 light years ... than the background level of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...