Chorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new detection suggests scientists may understand less about them than first thought ...

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

This outer, hotter atmosphere of the sun — only visible from Earth during ... “It’s no wonder that when one of them hits our magnetosphere, it causes havoc, like the super storms in May ...

“The other mystery was that the magnetosphere did not have any plasma,” he says ... 2 data of the solar wind (a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun) upstream of Uranus for the few days ...

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

A newly compiled dataset of nearly one billion images of auroras is helping researchers categorize—and perhaps ultimately ...

A powerful solar eruption created striking auroras in the night sky around the planet on Oct. 10 and 11. See photos.

TWO lunar landers are scheduled for launch next week, as scientists gather the data necessary to set up human habitation on ...

A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in Earth's magnetosphere caused by solar wind and charged particles ejected from the sun, such as during a solar flare or coronal mass ejection. These storms ...