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Scientists suspect there’s ice hiding on the Moon, and a host of missions from the U.S. and beyond are searching for it.

On Dec. 26, 2022, the solar wind disappeared on Mars. In a new study, researchers led by Jasper Halekas at the University of Iowa explain why the ever-present solar wind vanished. Halekas will present the findings for media on Dec. 11 at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San

In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of a stream of charged

The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) spacecraft, led by a team of scientists from CU Boulder, is about the size of a cereal box. It has also recorded incredibly detailed measurements of the atmospheres of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.

<p>Train accidents could be caused by solar storms switching signalling from red to green according to new research examining the impact of space weather.</p> <p>Solar storms can trigger powerful magnetic disturbances on Earth, creating geomagnetically induced currents which could potentially interfere with electricity transmission and distribution grids.</p> <p>A study of two rail lines showed that more serious “wrong side” failures (red to gree...

A solar superstorm could cause a rail disaster, scientists warn.

Dec. 9 marks two years since the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light – and the geometry and inner workings of the ultra-powerful energy sources from which it emanates.

In Argentina's Puna de Atacama, a parched plateau more than 12,000 feet above sea level, a series of lagoons are home to microbial communities that seem to resemble nothing else alive on Earth today. But time may be running out to study them.

Three ‘super’ geomagnetic storms occurred in the past two centuries, revealing these large events are more common than researchers previously thought.

A comparison against classic models. SHISHIR PRIYADARSHI, WAHYUDIN P. SYAM, ANDRÉS ABELARDO GARCÍA ROQUÉ, ALEJANDRO PÉREZ CONESA, GMV GUILLAUME BUSCARLET, RAÜL ORÚS PÉREZ, MICKAEL DALL’ ORSO, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) Sun is the source of energy needed to ionize the Earth’s atmosphere, which is an