As massive glaciers scratched and scarred Earth’s rocky surface, they freed less-common minerals, which were later flushed into the seas as the ice melted into giant glacial rivers. These minerals in ...

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 ...

Geomagnetic storms are capable of sparking beautiful displays of the Northern Lights across our night sky. However, there is a potential danger behind that beauty, especially now, with solar activity ...

Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned.

In its current orientation ... Since 2013, ESA's Swarm constellation has been measuring magnetic signals from Earth's core, mantle, crust, oceans, ionosphere, and magnetosphere so we can better ...

Students interested in experimental molecular beam research with applications to hypersonics and to materials degradation and drag in low Earth orbit. Students interested in astrodynamics in ...

They’re caused by disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere as it interacts ... cameras and lenses to try to capture aurora. Current ISS astronaut Don Pettit, for example, recently shared ...

Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere protect us from the high ... Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?" Portland: "Better ...