Yuri Shprits, a space scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, is on a mission to save our planet.

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

One of the highlights for astronauts who spend time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is the chance to enjoy ...

As a result of the lack of solar wind, the pressure decrease caused Mars's atmosphere and magnetosphere to expand by thousands of kilometers, tripling in size. It also sent a supersonic shockwave ...

As Dr. Renate Mauland-Hus explains, the solar maximum will continue until mid-2025. This phase will see increased aurora activity with a predicted peak in July 2025. Even after solar maximum, auroras ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

This, they claim, means it must have originated in the highly magnetized region that surrounds a star: the magnetosphere ... their apparent brightness is more affected by the Earth’s atmosphere than ...

that emerge from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the corona. These ejections can collide with Earth’s magnetosphere, the barrier protecting humanity from the harshest effects of space weather ...

Generated by the churning molten metals in Earth’s core, the magnetosphere shields the planet from harmful solar radiation and keeps solar winds from stripping away Earth’s atmosphere.