Planets with a strong magnetic field can create peculiar environments in their immediate vicinity. Earth’s magnetosphere protects us and also creates the Van Allen belts of radiation. Jupiter’s ...

The European Space Agency collaborated with China to build and launch a new satellite that hopes to collect needed data that we have not gotten before.

"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon ...

Scientists analyzing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission have identified an unexpected feature in Saturn’s magnetic shield.

As you probably know, Earth's magnetosphere, 'the invisible bubble of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surrounds and protects the planet from the periodically lethal radiation ...

Today’s aurora alert proves the Sun is more dynamic than many may realize. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center announced today that the Sun had ...

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just left the realm of the solar wind and entered the domain of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, within which all particles are manipulated by the planet’s immense magnetic field.

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is ...

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares for liftoff, most of the conversation in D.C. and around the nation has rightly centered on the excitement of the first cr ...

Scientists report a method to study smaller magnetospheres, sometimes just millimeters thick, in the laboratory. The new experimental platform combines the magnetic field of the Large Plasma Device ...