When the plasma confined in the dipole magnetic field of RT-1 contains a significant ratio of high-temperature electrons (red particles), the spontaneous formation of a chorus emission (white emission ...

Today’s aurora alert proves the Sun is more dynamic than many may realize. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center announced today that the Sun had ...

Explore the hidden dynamics of Earth’s magnetosphere, a constantly spinning, living shield generated by the molten iron core beneath our feet. Learn how it has weakened by 30% over the last 3,000 ...

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet. New ...

NOORDWIJK, Netherlands—The European Space Agency (ESA) is finalizing the test phase of the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite, a joint mission with the Chinese Academy ...

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 ...

Two scientists discovered a new type of 'whistler,' an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth's magnetosphere. Two University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

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A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has found that NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at ...

The Zhurong rover has operated on the surface of Mars for over a year since it deployed on May 22, 2021. Before the rover suspended operations on May 20, 2022, due to the onset of winter and the ...