NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds.

There is a constant outward flow of charged particles from the Sun. This flow, known as the solar wind, moves across space ...

It turns out Earth isn’t just spinning through space; we’ve also got a hidden feature many people don’t know about—a tail. A recent NASA study uncovered that our planet has a magnetic tail that ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission studies how solar wind removed Mars’ atmosphere, using twin spacecraft to measure atmospheric escape, magnetosphere changes, and space weather impacts.

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella ...

After a month of receiving the silent treatment, controllers have regained contact with a TRACERS spacecraft that went offline shortly after launch.… The next step will be an attempt to recover the ...

Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless ...

Min Read An artist's concept shows the two ESCAPADE spacecraft at Mars. The ESCAPADE mission is the first to coordinate two spacecraft in orbit ...