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

Chorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new ...

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.

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 ...

The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to a wide swath of Americans Friday night due to an impending solar storm ...

Strange chorus waves, detected far from Earth, challenge existing theories and raise space mission safety concerns.

Scintillation measurements show that FRB 20221022A originated from the highly magnetized region around a neutron star, challenging existing models of conditions there ...

At such close range, the burst likely emerged from the neutron star's magnetosphere -- a highly magnetic region immediately surrounding the ultracompact star. The team's findings provide the first ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

When CMEs come into contact with the magnetosphere, electrically charged particles collide with atmospheric gases and release energy that manifests as lights, giving us the colorful light show ...

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

The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to South Dakotans Friday night due to an impending solar storm forecast to ...