A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This cutting-edge instrument, the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), is ...

We had expected that the radiation on the lunar surface would be constant when the Moon is not inside the Earth’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it will launch the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission on ...

Earth is constantly being hammered by charged particles emitted by the Sun that have enough power to make life on Earth almost impossible. We survive because Earth’s magnetic field traps and deflects ...

A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...

The sun's magnetic poles are about to disappear as they swap polarities, which may lead to a number of geomagnetic storms hitting Earth in their wake. The sun's magnetic poles swap positions every 11 ...

A new study using data from China's Chang'e-4 moon lander found an area of reduced radiation from cosmic rays near the moon.

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