NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

At G3 the storm is considered "strong", but it is also strengthened by something known as the "Russell-McPherron Effect".

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Michael Starkey has provided observational evidence from the SwRI-led ...

NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...

It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research.

The NASA Transient Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACERS) mission was launched on July 23, aiming to study the interaction between solar wind and Earth's magnetic field using two satellites. One ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully captured visible green auroras on Mars for the second time with its Perseverance rover. This remarkable achievement greatly ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening.

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

NASA is targeting liftoff at NET 7:32 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center.

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

Last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, zooming just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, and we’re just now seeing some results from that close brush with ...