What are the Van Allen belts? Learn how these giant rings of charged particles cause problems for astronauts and satellites.

Researchers have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

Mars experienced an aurora in March 2024, turning the sky green, as a solar storm produced the first visible light Martian ...

"It took three unsuccessful attempts before we got it right, but when we did, it appeared exactly as we had imagined it; as a ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

What is so spectacular about this Martian aurora discovery, considering that scientists have captured and reported several ...

Image is the first taken on the surface of another planet, and the first visible-light aurora image from anywhere other than ...

Stunning auroral activity has been observed on Jupiter, in an unexpected new discovery that has perplexed astronomers as to ...

Webb telescope uncovers fiery, fast-pulsing auroras on Jupiter, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s magnetic storms.

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 ...