Science news articles about 'interstellar wind'

... million-mile-per-hour solar wind and the low-density material between the stars, known ... image has also allowed scientists to "catch and analyze the interstellar wind at Earth's doorstep." Says Möbius ...

... seeds," Kuchner said. As dust particles respond to the interstellar wind, a debris disk can morph into peculiar ... disk instead slices edgewise through interstellar gas, the resulting headwind blows away ...

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy ...

... from Earth, it has confirmed what astrophysicists had believed - the conflict between the solar wind and the interstellar wind has made that part of the solar system slightly squashed. Read More...