Current sheets in turbulent plasma are the ... The high-speed solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetosphere, forming bow shocks on the sunlit side of the Earth. The magnetosheath, the ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential ...

In the air, the threat of higher radiation exposure, as well as communication and navigation losses, forced trans-Atlantic flights to change course.

During the Laschamps excursion, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to just 10% of its current strength ... the research team reconstructed Earth’s magnetosphere during five key periods of ...

U S space agency NASA has outlined lessons that have been learned following the "Gannon storm" of May last year, the most ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

A screen shot from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio that visualizes the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024. The powerful ...

The tool describes current and future environmental disturbances ... The NOAA describes geomagnetic storms as "a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very ...

New study reveals, how foreshock waves interact with Earth’s magnetosphere. Foreshock waves are able to tune the shock, making it alternatively stronger or weaker. These waves could only be ...

Space Weather is an emerging field of space science focusing on understanding the conditions and processes on the sun, in the interplanetary space, and in the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere and ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field dropped to just 10% of its current level ... this field forms the magnetosphere—a vast bubble that deflects charged particles from the Sun.