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tycho Supernova remnant
Space

How collisionless shock waves can accelerate particles to extreme speeds?

Amit Malewar

Breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators.

parker solar probe
Space

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

Pranjal Malewar

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

Uranus
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

moon's surface
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

ESA Solar Orbiter
Space

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

Editorial Team

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

blue earth with red and white lines
Earth

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

Amit Malewar

Oldest undisputed evidence of Earth’s magnetic field.

planetary material escaping
Space

Venus’s atmosphere emits Oxygen and Carbon

Amit Malewar

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.
Space

The disappearing solar wind on Mars

Amit Malewar

The dramatic and unexpected “disappearance”.

The importance of the Earth’s atmosphere
Earth

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

Amit Malewar

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

Moon
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

Image showing sun and mercury
Space

How the solar wind interacts with Mercury’s surface?

Amit Malewar

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
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

Parker Solar Probe spacecraft
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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
Space

Astronomers observed first radiation belt seen outside our solar system

Pranjal Malewar

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

Illustration of Moon dust
Space

Moon dust could help protect the earth from climate change

Amit Malewar

Could space dust help protect the earth from climate change?

Image showing explosion from sun
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

Schematic of solar wind charge exchange events
Space

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

Amit Malewar

Models capture how solar wind charge exchange events are observed.

high-speed hydrogen ions
Space

Researchers find water formed from solar wind in lunar soils

Amit Malewar

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

Sun’s middle corona
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

The Sun`s atmosphere
Space

Unlocking one of the Sun’s most persevering secrets

Pranjal Malewar

Catching the dynamic Coronal Web.

laser-driven plasma expanding into the dipole magnetic field
Science

A method to study mini-magnetospheres

Pranjal Malewar

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

When solar wind strikes magnetosphere
Space

When the solar wind hits the magnetosphere, some energy waves do just the opposite

Amit Malewar

The waves travel against solar wind.

new insights about the sun’s electric field
Space

First definitive measurements of the sun’s electric field

Amit Malewar

Physicists describe the sun's electric field.

supermassive black hole enshrouded in dust
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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

heliosphere
Space

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

Amit Malewar

Understanding how solar and interstellar winds interact.

July 12, 2012 coronal mass ejection
Space

Which way does the solar wind blow?

Amit Malewar

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

Solar Orbiter mission
Space

Why solar wind does not cool down as fast as expected?

Amit Malewar

Simulating the solar wind.

A new view of small sun structures
Space

A new view of small sun structures

Amit Malewar

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

Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission
Space

The study offers clues on what makes the sun’s atmosphere so hot

Amit Malewar

Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere.

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