Space science
What is a spacecraft 23 billion kilometers from Earth doing?
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to explore the universe 45 years after launching from Earth and 22 light hours away from the planet.
Heliosphere
Browse ScienceInfo articles and explainers related to Heliosphere.
Topic archive
Articles about Heliosphere
10 published items.
Animal world
NASA spacecraft discovers 'wrinkled bubble' enveloping us
Strange data from a NASA spacecraft reveals the ghostly, wrinkled, rippled structure of a cosmic bubble encircling the solar system.
Space science
Heliosphere: Invisible Guardian of the Solar System!
Hidden behind the bright light of the Sun, our Solar System is surrounded by an invisible but powerful shield called the Heliosphere.
Space science
NASA transmits its first signal from interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 helps scientists determine where to end the influence of the solar wind and start interstellar space.
Space science
The solar system has a tail like a comet
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said one of its spacecraft had long suspected that the solar system had a tail like a comet.
Space science
New discoveries about diaries
The sun and planets are covered by bubbles of charged and magnetic particles called heliosomes. At the edge of the heliosphere, where it collides with intermittent clump…
Space science
Interstellar material
NASA's interstellar zone exploration program (IBEX) has obtained the best and most complete view ever of what is outside our solar system. New measurements provide clues…
Space science
Find the border of the solar system
The US space agency (NASA) will put a satellite into space to understand the outer edge of the solar system.
Space science
The solar system is compressed asymmetry between directions
The methods of the solar system are not a perfect arc, they are compressed as a distorted ball, floating in the space between planets and there is no symmetrical arc bet…
Videos
Video: NASA probe ships out of the solar system after a 40-year journey
The Voyager 2 spacecraft is an interplanetary unmanned spacecraft launched on August 20, 1977