Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened magnetic field, more harmful radiation would have reached Earth’s surface, ...

What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were ...

Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the Southwest Research Institute has delivered the first observational evidence from ...

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will be traveling a million miles through space, the spacecraft will remain ...

If you’re a fan of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, then you’re in luck. Last year was a bonanza, with auroras visible from all over the world – and twice they showed up brighter and farther ...

SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...