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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's conception of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft next to Earth on the right and the boundary of the ...

Since its October 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has mapped the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, surpassing its mission ...

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 ...

GREENBELT, Md. — The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Roughly the size of a card table, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is the latest in NASA ...

Data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed.

The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the first mission to examine the global interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, reveal ...