Giant Waves of Solar Wind May Have Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere, New Study Finds
Although Mars is a frigid and hostile world today, the Red Planet may have once been capable of…
Chang’e-6 samples reveal how Earth’s magnetosphere changed the solar wind reaching the Moon
The Moon’s two hemispheres have spent billions of years facing very different surroundings. Its far side looks away…
The Sun’s Atmosphere May Be Feeding on Dust
3D rendering of the Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and…
NASA’s New Horizons Reveals a Hidden Interstellar Slowdown at the Solar System’s Edge
For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system.…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
MAVEN Detects Rare Atmospheric Effect on Mars
New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect — a…
Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind
Science & Exploration 13/04/2026 801 views 17 likes Since July 2025, the European Space Agency’s pair of Proba-3 satellites has…
Cassini-Huygens mission finds lopsided shift in Saturn’s magnetic bubble
Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from…
From Measurements to Solar Wind Model Initial Conditions
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Space Weather The solar wind is…
China found something strange on far side of moon no one ever saw occur naturally before
Tiny carbon nanotubes with walls just one atom thick found on the far side of the moon have…
Happy New Year! Celebrate with an M7.1 solar flare!
First of all, a happy new year to all of our visitors! Thank you for making 2025 an…