The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...
The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon ...
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ...
Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
M iles upon miles overhead, there is a field in the atmosphere that shields the Earth from space energies that could be ...
than the slower wind from other parts of the sun. When the fast solar wind from a coronal hole reaches Earth, it can interact with our planet’s magnetosphere, sometimes triggering geomagnetic ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...
The phenomenon of auroras occurs when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field. These particles travel along the lines of the magnetosphere toward Earth's north and south ...
Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.
A vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere ... also be spectacular displays of aurora caused as the Earth's magnetosphere is disturbed by the solar wind.