Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...

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 ...

"We expect to see the magnetosphere breathing out and breathing in." Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds ...

To get a global view of Earth’s magnetosphere, NASA’s Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is set for a trip to the moon. Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after ...

Upon successful landing, LEXI will jolt into action, focusing its gaze back towards Earth. During an intense, six-day session, this innovative device will record images of X-rays originating from the ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...

With exquisite poetic detail, his work described the deep feelings of love that Daphnis had for Ganymede, “that faire boy that had my hart intangled,” convention, morality and the law be damned. “If ...