Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the ...

Planets with a strong magnetic field can create peculiar environments in their immediate vicinity. Earth’s magnetosphere ...

Scientists analyzing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission have identified an unexpected feature in Saturn’s magnetic shield.

Today’s aurora alert proves the Sun is more dynamic than many may realize. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center announced today that the Sun had ...

As you probably know, Earth's magnetosphere, 'the invisible bubble of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surrounds and protects the planet from the periodically lethal radiation ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield is not symmetrical. A new study analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found that the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has ...

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares for liftoff, most of the conversation in D.C. and around the nation has rightly ...

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is ...

NASA have released chilling details about how Cold War nuclear weapons tests affected our planet. Several nuclear tests were carried out by the US and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s. But it’s ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just left the realm of the solar wind and entered the domain of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, within which all particles are manipulated by the planet’s immense magnetic field.