IBEX
NASA Restores a Spacecraft by Turning it Off and Then On Again
When faced with a potentially mission-ending problem with NASA’s 15-year-old Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, engineers performed a time-honored procedure…
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
Our Solar System Has a Tail Shaped Like a Four-Leaf Clover: New Findings from IBEX
Our Solar System is moving through interstellar space and scientists have long thought that the “bubble” around our Solar System…
Surprise! IBEX Finds No Bow ‘Shock’ Outside our Solar System
[/caption] For years, scientists have thought a bow "shock" formed ahead of our solar system’s heliosphere as it moved through…
IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System
[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…
Mysterious Ribbon at Edge of Solar System is Changing
A year ago, researchers from the IBEX mission – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer – announced the discovery of an unexpected…
Cassini/IBEX Data Changes View of Heliosphere Shape
Though the Cassini mission has focused intently on scientific exploration of Saturn and its moons, data taken by the spacecraft…
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System
[/caption] Since it launched a year ago, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has been monitoring heliosphere and how our Sun…
NASA IBEX Spacecraft Detects Neutral Hydrogen Bouncing Off Moon
[/caption] NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon,…