Planets with a strong magnetic field can create peculiar environments in their immediate vicinity. Earth’s magnetosphere ...

Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, ...

A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant ...

A team has found that NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The waves are an important ...

When the plasma confined in the dipole magnetic field of RT-1 contains a significant ratio of high-temperature electrons (red particles), the spontaneous formation of a chorus emission (white emission ...

Today’s aurora alert proves the Sun is more dynamic than many may realize. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center announced today that the Sun had ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

We had expected that the radiation on the lunar surface would be constant when the Moon is not inside the Earth’s ...

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, ...

NOORDWIJK, Netherlands—The European Space Agency (ESA) is finalizing the test phase of the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite, a joint mission with the Chinese Academy ...

A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has found that NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at ...