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The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...
The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.
Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...
This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...
Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse. Over the course of our planet’s history, the field has flipped ...
Giant a coronal hole in the Sun a mouth-like vortex about the size of five Jupiters spews hot streams of solar wind toward ...
The icy surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has captured scientists' attention. Compounds like carbon dioxide and salt ...
Jared Isaacman wasn't a perfect NASA nominee, but his passion for the agency's scientific missions will be missed.
The South Atlantic Anomaly(SAA), a region of weakened magnetic field over South America and the Atlantic, is intensifying.
Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will loop around Jupiter on a course that will carry it by Europa 49 times over four years ...
It's not an actual hole in the Sun, but what is known as a coronal hole: a region where the Sun's magnetic field opens up, ...
NASA shows how asteroids shaped Earth’s past. They still hold the power to reset life as we know it, but scientists are ready ...