High above Earth, where space and the planet’s magnetic field meet, powerful forces collide. Streams of charged particles known as the solar wind constantly flow from the Sun toward Earth. Most of the ...

Earth’s magnetic shield protects us from the Sun’s deadly solar wind—except at the polar cusps, where energy funnels straight toward Earth. NASA’s TRACERS mission will send two spacecraft ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

Using MAVEN data from November 2014 to May 2023, this research have investigated the distribution of magnetic field residuals in the Martian nightside ionosphere under four upstream solar wind ...

As the nearest celestial body to Earth, Moon’s space environment is distinctive to Earth’s mainly because of lack of a significant atmosphere/ionosphere and a global magnetic field ...

"These findings indicate that magnetic reconnection in the HCS is an important source of energetic particles in the near-Sun solar wind," Desai said. "Everywhere there are magnetic fields there ...

The CME caused Earth’s bow shock —the shockwave that typically forms when a CME hits Earth’s magnetic field—to disappear for two hours, from approximately 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. ET.

New data available from the Parker Solar Probe made the research possible. The probe provided magnetic field measurements and plasma measurements at high resolution in never-before-seen proximity ...

Solar winds triggered by magnetic fieldsSolar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College ...

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As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind align, creating an increased chance of seeing the colorful auroras in the ...