Lunar rocks are famously dry. They contain almost none of the volatile elements that easily escape into space, such as ...

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

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

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

The magnetic field around, that protects us without being see, has a huge weak spot. Over the past 11 years, the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation has revealed that the South ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth’s surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the emergence of life, temperatures were scorching, and the air was toxic. Plus, as a mere toddler, the Sun ...

Something strange is happening above the South Atlantic. Earth’s magnetic field, normally a powerful shield, is unusually weak in this region – and it’s getting weaker. New satellite data reveal that ...

Space is a bad place, and it’ll always conspire to kill creatures as frail as we humans are. But that isn’t stopping us from going up there, in a bid to conquer the vast expanse. And to do that, we ...