A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

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"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...

NASA detects mysterious 'chirping' signals, or chorus waves, 165,000 km from Earth, revealing surprising energy transfer in ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

This discovery has opened new avenues for the understanding of complex behavior of space radiation and its effects on our dear planet.

Readers respond to Rachel Aviv’s piece about Alice Munro, Adam Gopnik’s essay on Saturn’s rings, and Rachel Syme’s profile of Adam Scott.

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale satellites have observed bird-like chorus waves in the Earth's mid-tail neutral sheet, ...

NASA's MMS mission discovered whistler-mode chorus waves in an unexpected region, the terrestrial mid-tail neutral sheet, ...

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called ...