That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun's solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

NASA is launching a powerful trio of space missions to protect Earth from space weather! On September 23rd, a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...