Scientists Can Now Watch Auroras in Broad Daylight From Space and It’s As Stunning As It Sounds
Smile’s first ultraviolet footage shows an auroral substorm. Credit: ESA & CAS/Smile/UVI The northern lights do not disappear…
Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Beta Pictoris b
For the first time, astronomers have directly detected radio emission from a planet beyond our Solar System. This…
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…
NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current
Earth’s magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet,…
How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?
Applications 16/03/2026 134 views 4 likes It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets…
Ganymede’s Auroral Patches Reveal Shared Physics with Earth’s Aurorae
Scientsts from the United States, Europe and China have used the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
The Solar Wind Is Hiding Strange Particles That Could Rewrite Space Weather
This illustration shows Earth’s magnetosphere interacting with the solar wind. The magnetosphere shields the Earth from harmful solar…
“Alien Aurora” – Scientists Spot Never-Before-Seen Plasma Waves in Jupiter’s Polar Lights
This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft in 2016 shows the north polar region of Jupiter. The JunoCam obtained…