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Solar eclipse in space, photorealistic illustration

How coronal holes propel supersonic solar wind?

The Sun doesn’t just shine — it blows.

tycho Supernova remnant

How collisionless shock waves can accelerate particles to extreme speeds?

Breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators.

parker solar probe

Record Breaking: Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest approach to the Sun

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star.

Uranus

Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why

The team predict Uranus’ upper atmosphere should continue to get colder or reverse the trend.

moon's surface

Scientists identified the primary process that formed the Moon’s atmosphere

Scientists solves 50-year-old mystery of moon's atmosphere.

ESA Solar Orbiter

Unraveling the Mystery of Slow Solar Wind: Insights from Solar Orbiter

Researchers have made progress in uncovering the enigmatic beginnings of the 'slow' solar wind.

blue earth with red and white lines

Scientists recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth’s magnetic field 

Oldest undisputed evidence of Earth’s magnetic field.

planetary material escaping

Venus’s atmosphere emits Oxygen and Carbon

Surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere.

surface of the red planet mars close-up.

The disappearing solar wind on Mars

The dramatic and unexpected “disappearance”.

The importance of the Earth’s atmosphere

The importance of the Earth’s upper atmosphere in developing large geomagnetic storms

This research may help predict the storms that will have the greatest consequences.

Moon

Electrons in Earth’s plasma may be forming water on the Moon

High energy electrons in earth's magnetosphere: A tool for Moonwater formation.

Image showing sun and mercury

How the solar wind interacts with Mercury’s surface?

New insight into how interactions with the Sun alters the surface and produces Mercury’s very thin atmosphere.

images each showing one or more dark streaks in various orientations

Solar Orbiter found tiny jets could be the source of solar wind

Each jet lasts between 20 and 100 seconds, and expels plasma at around 100 km/s.

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities

Giant swirling waves identified at the edge of Jupiter’s magnetosphere

The waves are an important process for transferring energy and mass from the solar wind.

Parker Solar Probe spacecraft

Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source

It’s like seeing jets of water emanating from a showerhead through the blast of water.

Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259

Astronomers observed first radiation belt seen outside our solar system

High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf.

Illustration of Moon dust

Moon dust could help protect the earth from climate change

Could space dust help protect the earth from climate change?

Image showing explosion from sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered clues about the origins of the solar wind

This finding is helping scientists better understand the 60-year-old mystery.

Schematic of solar wind charge exchange events

Modeling variations observed in soft X-ray signals detected by satellites

Models capture how solar wind charge exchange events are observed.

high-speed hydrogen ions

Researchers find water formed from solar wind in lunar soils

The abundance, distribution and origin of lunar surface water have received a lot of attention recently.

Sun’s middle corona

Scientists discovered web-like plasma structures in the Sun’s middle corona

The findings could lead to a better understanding of the solar wind’s origins.

The Sun`s atmosphere

Unlocking one of the Sun’s most persevering secrets

Catching the dynamic Coronal Web.

laser-driven plasma expanding into the dipole magnetic field

A method to study mini-magnetospheres

A unique environment to study kinetic-scale, collisionless plasma physics in the laboratory.

new insights about the sun’s electric field

First definitive measurements of the sun’s electric field

Physicists describe the sun's electric field.

supermassive black hole enshrouded in dust

Black holes may generate tsunami-like structures on much bigger scales

These waves can steepen into spiraling vortex structures that can reach a height of 10 light-years above the disk.

heliosphere

The boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped for the first time

Understanding how solar and interstellar winds interact.

July 12, 2012 coronal mass ejection

Which way does the solar wind blow?

Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather prediction.

A new view of small sun structures

A new view of small sun structures

New insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind.

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