A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has a unique and dynamic magnetosphere that interacts significantly with solar wind—a stream of charged particles released from the Sun. Understanding ...

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...

The European Space Agency is set to launch a joint space science mission with China in early 2026 after a long collaboration.

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at ...

The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) which aims to study the ...

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds to space weather.

A massive coronal hole on the Sun is sending solar wind toward Earth, increasing aurora visibility in higher latitudes.

Grand cosmic events demand electrons to reach relativistic speeds. A new study explains where they get their initial energy from.

A massive 500,000-mile coronal hole on the Sun is sending high-speed solar wind toward Earth, increasing the risk of geomagnetic storms that could disrupt satellites and power grids.