The world's strongest magnet isn't just science fiction: it's real, ridiculously powerful, and used in some truly fascinating ...
A powerful solar storm in May 2024 triggered the acceleration of dangerous electrons inside a region of Earth’s magnetic ...
The TRACERS mission is helping researchers study magnetic activity and the forces that affect Earth’s space environment.
NASA's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues ...
Scientists found a major solar storm sent high-energy electrons into a region around Earth that they thought was protected.
New computer simulations reveal an unexpected interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. Credit: Stock.
A NASA cutaway visualization of the Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Johns Hopkins University, ...
For all we’ve learned about places far away in outer space, we may have barely scratched the surface of the places lying deep within Earth. As a result, there’s a lot of information we seem to be ...
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An Ansell's mole rat in Zoo Leipzig. (Headster/Wikimedia/CC BY 4.0) The amazing animal known as Ansell's mole rat (Fukomys ...