Are the Northern Lights dangerous? Solar storms in May and October saw intense displays of aurora borealis across the U.S.

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Scientists in China claimed that the magnetic shield over North America is weakening rapidly. The geomagnetic field, a kind ...

Chinese scientists find the natural barrier over the eastern hemisphere is strengthening, possibly because of a shift in the ...

A small but mighty cluster of sunspots have made their biggest mark yet on Earth's magnetosphere—and on the radio signals that pass below it. After releasing an X2.3-class solar flare on Nov. 6, radio ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

Earth’s Sun has been heating up as of late ... They are often followed by coronal mass ejections, which are large expulsions ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

On 6, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a powerful solar flare, peaking at 8:40 a.m. ET. This flare, classified as an X2.3, is intense enough to potentially disrupt radio signals, ...