It turns out Earth isn’t just spinning through space; we’ve also got a hidden feature many people don’t know about—a tail. A ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

A rare magnetic phenomenon, once thought confined to the sun’s outer atmosphere, has been seen to twist its way through Earth ...

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA ...

NASA has selected a heliophysics mission to move into the next phase of development amid broader concerns about the state of ...

Ever seen the northern lights? You have a magnetic layer in Earth’s atmosphere to thank for those beautiful displays. But the magnetosphere does a lot more than create auroras.

NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.

A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

As part of its latest mission selection and development process, NASA has also approved an extended Phase A study of the ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

The European Space Agency's Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth's poles during ...