Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

Riding with SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission, NASA’s EZIE CubeSats will unlock the mysteries of auroral electrojets. These ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

At planetary scale, Earth’s magnetic field induces such a current ... Sometimes the sun emits large bursts of magnetized solar plasma, called coronal mass ejections, which can cause major disturbances ...

FAST (Earth's aurora), THEMIS (Earth's magnetosphere), RBSP (Earth's radiation belts), MMS (magnetic reconnection mission), and MAVEN (Mars atmosphere). We also contribute to STEREO (solar wind) and ...

High above Earth's poles, powerful electrojets create mesmerizing auroras but also pose risks like power outages. NASA’s ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...

Cole graduated in 2020 from Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in Physics, having done research in the solar input to ionospheric total electron content and the Earth's ionosphere-magnetosphere ...