With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?

Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems After a month of receiving the silent treatment, controllers have ...

Researchers have discovered that PSR B1937+21's incredible rotation speed is due to its process of accreting material from a ...

One of the features of Earth that is critical to protecting life as we know it is the magnetosphere. The Earth's magnetosphere is a magnetic field that protects the planet from the constant ...

In a celestial surprise, the northern lights are putting on a show across portions of the northern U.S. Sunday evening. A stream of solar wind is colliding with Earth's magnetosphere Sunday night, and ...

Scientists have built a device that mimics the magnetic fields surrounding the Earth and other planets. They hope to use the device to understand how the Earth's protective magnetosphere works – and ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just left the realm of the solar wind and entered the domain of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, within which all particles are manipulated by the planet’s immense magnetic field.

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 ...

NASA have released chilling details about how Cold War nuke tests affected our planet. Several nuclear tests were carried out by the US and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s. But it’s only now ...

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 ...

The northern lights made a second appearance in two weeks across Northeast Ohio, especially along the lakefront.