Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps ...

What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...

Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday, ...

But in the magnetosphere collisions between particles are rare, and scattering across the magnetic field is most effective when there are electromagnetic waves at frequencies of a few millihertz ...

An example effect is the bow shock created as the magnetosphere passes through the solar wind. Energetically charged particles affect polar ozone levels and have been linked to surface climate ...

NASA is planning to launch it LEXI X-ray imager, which is part of the ARTEMIS effort to return humans to the Moon, later this month.