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

Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a ...

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

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.

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 ...

As a result of the lack of solar wind, the pressure decrease caused Mars's atmosphere and magnetosphere to expand by thousands of kilometers, tripling in size. It also sent a supersonic shockwave ...

An example effect is the bow shock created as the magnetosphere passes through the solar wind. The exchange of electromagnetic and thermal energy in collisionless plasmas is an important area of ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will study the Sun’s corona and solar wind using four small satellites. Launching in 2025, it aims to ...

The European Space Agency is set to launch a joint space science mission alongside China in early 2026 after a long collaboration. The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a ...