But for the past several years, scientists have known of a mystery in the magnetotail: a missing storm. They have found a signature of a storm, but no storm to actually go along with it. NASA’s ...

"This is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years," the Space Weather Prediction Center said on Monday.

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led by the University of Iowa (UI) with substantial contributions from Southwest ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...

A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field using a NASA satellite that will launch later this month. The study dubbed ...

Using measurements of the four ESA’s Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent ‘plasma’ around ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that there were more volatiles ...

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black ...

This image depicts the X-ray emission intensity distribution (keyed in colors) calculated by the proposed model and Earth’s magnetic field (lines). The sphere in the center of the figure represents ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.