Researchers at Boston University have envisioned an active space shield, named StormWall, capable of halving the intensity of ...

Humanity’s strategy for dealing with solar storms has always been to see them coming, hope for the best, and prepare for the ...

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which ...

ESA's quartet of satellites studying Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster, has discovered that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously ...

An ambitious proposal, published earlier this month in Space Weather, explores the possibility of a space-based system ...

Scientists have built a device that mimics the magnetic fields surrounding the Earth and other planets. They hope to use the device to understand how the Earth's protective magnetosphere works – and ...

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The iron-cored Earth behaves like a great magnet, generating a huge magnetic field around the planet that protects it from blasts and harmful radiation from the sun. The recently released NASA ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just left the realm of the solar wind and entered the domain of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, within which all particles are manipulated by the planet’s immense magnetic field.

ESA’s quartet of satellites studying Earth’s magnetosphere, Cluster, has discovered that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously ...