The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and ...

Earth’s magnetic shield protects us from the Sun’s deadly solar wind—except at the polar cusps, where energy funnels straight toward Earth. NASA’s TRACERS mission will send two spacecraft through ...

A new NASA mission is set to launch that will study the effects of Earth’s magnetic field on us. NASA and SpaceX are set to ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

We are witnessing where space weather threats to Earth begin, with our eyes, not just with models.” With these words, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate spokesperson Nicky Fox conveyed the wonder that ...

Solar winds could have played a major role in delivering water to Earth, new research has found, potentially solving the mystery of how our planet's oceans formed.

Up to half of Earth's water may come from solar wind and space dust. Nov 30, 2021. Why is there water on Earth? Feb 12, 2021. Electrons from Earth may be forming water on the moon. Sep 14, 2023.

The spacecraft's observations show the solar wind piling up in front of the magnetopause - the boundary between Earth's magnetosphere and space, about 35,000 miles (56,327 km) toward the sun.

On Earth, scientists say understanding lulls in the solar wind are important because they can cause interference with satellites and communications. The solar wind’s effect on Mars ...

Usually, the Earth moves throughout the solar system with a magnetic field shaped like a tail at its nightside during interactions with solar wind. Experts often compare the shape to a windsock ...

On its way to Mars in December 2022, the solar wind vacuum hit Earth. As the solar wind decreased around our planet, Halekas said another NASA mission observed the expansion of the Earth’s ...