From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for. View on ...

ESA’s quartet of satellites studying Earth’s magnetosphere, Cluster, has discovered that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously ...

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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 ...

Scientists Have Captured the Sounds of Mercury’s Magnetosphere for the First Time ...

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is ...

According to new data from five satellites, a warm plasma cloak makes up part of the magnetosphere — the invisible shield that surrounds and protects Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind. A team ...

Two cubesats designed to study the Earth's magnetic field and to look for exoplanets around nearby stars rode to space on Monday (Sept. 27) with NASA's new Landsat 9 Earth observation mission. The two ...

The solar wind is a constant feature of the solar system – except on Christmas Day 2022 when it suddenly vanished completely. The odd event was detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, which found ...

On Christmas Day last year, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected and exceedingly rare while orbiting Mars. Specifically, it appears to have noticed the almost complete ...