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There's much ado about the moon this week, and a ton of launches scheduled for March. But we'll start today with news from Washington State of a very cool new way to manage space dust.
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reset its flight computer Feb. 18 and has been unresponsive to commands ever since, agency officials said Friday (Feb. 24).
The heliopause, or the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium, appears to be rippling and creating oblique angles in an unexpected manner.
After more delays and problems, we're calling it: The corollary of "it's five o'clock somewhere" appears to be "it's always Monday in space."
The bubble of space encasing the Solar System might be wrinkled, at least sometimes. Data from a spacecraft orbiting Earth has revealed ripple structures in the termination shock and heliopause: shifting regions of space that mark one of the...