NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Reveals: The Heliosphere Has Ripples!
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX mission, has helped researchers learn something new about the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble created by the Sun that…
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NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Spacecraft Restored After “Firecode Reset”
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is fully operational after the mission team successfully reset the spacecraft on March 2. Back on February 18, IBEX experienced…
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Charts 11 Years of Change to Heliosphere
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…
IBEX Reveals How Solar Wind Changes Our Heliosphere
What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two recent studies, the boundaries of our entire solar system balloon…
Heliosphere May be Much More Compact and Rounded Than Previously Thought
New data from the Cassini Mission, the two Voyager Spacecraft and NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, reveal that our sun and planets are surrounded by a…
New IBEX Observations Determine the Strength of the Magnetic Field Outside the Heliosphere
A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Continues to Help Solve the Interstellar Medium Mystery
Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft show that the direction of the magnetic field has been slowly turning ever since the spacecraft crossed into interstellar…
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Provides New Details on Solar System Boundary
New research from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission provides the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date. The new…
IBEX Explores the Magnetic System Beyond the Solar Wind
Newly published research uses IBEX data to paint a better picture of the magnetic system that surrounds us, offering an explanation for a decades-old mystery…
IBEX Reveals First View of the Solar System’s Tail, The Heliotail
In a newly published study, NASA IBEX data reveals the never before seen boundaries of the tail of the heliosphere, the heliotail. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary…
IBEX Measures Particles Outside Our Solar System
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) studies the outer boundaries of the solar system and measures samples of particles from where the solar wind collides with…