Moon’s Mystery Moisture: Electrons From Earth May Be Forming Lunar Water
Scientists from the University of Hawai‘i found that Earth’s plasma sheet electrons affect the Moon’s weathering and may help form water. The discovery deepens our…
Solar Wind News
Sun’s Mighty Solar Wind Powered by Tiny “Picoflare Jets” Within Coronal Holes
Images from the Solar Orbiter revealed small “picoflare” jets within a coronal hole on the Sun, which might supply energy to the solar wind, enhancing…
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Jets That Could Power the Solar Wind
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered a multitude of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Each jet lasts between 20…
Researchers Uncover Origin and Abundance of Lunar Surface Water
Recently, there has been a lot of focus on the abundance, distribution, and origin of lunar surface water due to its vital role in future…
Modeling Solar Winds: Simulations Reproduce Complex Fluctuations in Soft X-Ray Signal Detected by Satellites
Models capture how solar wind charge exchange events are observed. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used numerical methods to model the variations observed in…
Scientists Discover New Physics Missing From Existing Models of Magnetic Reconnection
Micro-Scale Current Sheets Unleash Macro-Scale Space Weather Scientists discover new physics missing from existing models of magnetic reconnection. While movies show Earth as existing in…
The Solar Wind Across Our Solar System [Infographic]
The Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with…
Solar Cycle 25: The Sun Wakes Up
The Sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been pretty sleepy,…
Scientists Reveal the True Power of the Solar Wind
Electrically charged particles from the sun strike moons and planets with great force. The consequences of these impacts can now be explained by scientists from…
NASA DXL Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another
New research confirms some of our ideas about where cosmic X-rays come from and reveals an entire group of X-rays that don’t come from any…
Astronomers Track the Source of Slow Solar Wind
Using newly processed observations, astronomers spot tell-tale signs that the slow solar wind passing Earth originated from a magnetic phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. From…
New Model Advances the Understanding of How Solar Wind Works
A newly published study uses a new model to demonstrate ion-cyclotron resonant heating in solar wind; representing a major advance in the understanding of how…
Magnetic Disturbances Sent Massive Solar Wind Earthward
Powerful magnetic disturbances in Sol’s corona have hurled a large burst of charged particles into space on March 4th. The solar storm erupted from the…
Researchers Use Computer Simulations to Explain Acceleration of Electrons in Earth’s Magnetotail
Researchers at MIT used new data from computer simulations to prove their initially proposed theory explaining the large-scale acceleration of electrons in Earth’s magnetotail. The…
NASA Launched Rocket into Aurora Borealis
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén…
IBEX Measures Particles Outside Our Solar System
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) studies the outer boundaries of the solar system and measures samples of particles from where the solar wind collides with…
Strong Geomagnetic Storms a Possibility After Active Sunspot 1401 Erupted
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…
