Solar wind
How collisionless shock waves can accelerate particles to extreme speeds?
Breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators.
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’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.
Scientists identified the primary process that formed the Moon’s atmosphere
Scientists solves 50-year-old mystery of moon's atmosphere.
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.
Scientists recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth’s magnetic field
Oldest undisputed evidence of Earth’s magnetic field.
Venus’s atmosphere emits Oxygen and Carbon
Surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’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.
Electrons in Earth’s plasma may be forming water on the Moon
High energy electrons in earth's magnetosphere: A tool for Moonwater formation.
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.
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.
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 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.
Astronomers observed first radiation belt seen outside our solar system
High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf.
Moon dust could help protect the earth from climate change
Could space dust help protect the earth from climate change?
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.
Modeling variations observed in soft X-ray signals detected by satellites
Models capture how solar wind charge exchange events are observed.
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.
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.
A method to study mini-magnetospheres
A unique environment to study kinetic-scale, collisionless plasma physics in the laboratory.
When the solar wind hits the magnetosphere, some energy waves do just the opposite
The waves travel against solar wind.
First definitive measurements of the sun’s electric field
Physicists describe the sun's electric field.
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.
The boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped for the first time
Understanding how solar and interstellar winds interact.
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
New insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind.
The study offers clues on what makes the sun’s atmosphere so hot
Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere.