A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplements reports findings from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, which has been observing the heliosphere for over eleven years.

Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun's magnetic ...

For the last 11 years, scientists with NASA have been studying IBEX spacecraft data to look at how the heliosphere changes over time. The data collected by the spacecraft covers an entire solar cycle, ...

Data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), allowed a team of international researchers to provide the most definitive analyses, theories, and ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists yesterday highlighted an impressive list of achievements in researching the outer heliosphere at the 40th International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific ...

The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it ...

Although never actually observed, it has long been assumed that as our Solar System careers through the Universe, the heliosphere, or solar bubble, has a tail trailing behind it like a comet's. For ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A diagram of our heliosphere. For the first time, scientists ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Artist's impression of NASA's IBEX spacecraft exploring the edge of our solar system. The IBEX ...

Now, for the first time, scientists have used an entire solar cycle of data from NASA's IBEX spacecraft to study how the heliosphere changes over time. Solar cycles last roughly 11 years, as the Sun ...

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, October 15, 2009–The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from ...

San Antonio -- Aug. 4, 2014 -- Scientists yesterday highlighted an impressive list of achievements in researching the outer heliosphere at the 40th International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) ...