NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute is managing the $115 million mission examining the effects of solar winds.

For 540 million years, Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen levels have danced in sync — and NASA scientists just ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Just a short distance inland from the waves crashing against California's shore, NASA's Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission launched into the sky, taking off at 2:13 p.m. ET ...

At high doses, cosmic rays can tear through DNA molecules and damage biological tissue. Prolonged exposure to cosmic ...

The most energetic cosmic ray particle ever detected was given the brilliant moniker, the "Oh My God" particle. Detected in ...

NASA's TRACERS mission, with its twin satellites launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, aims to unravel the mysteries of magnetic ...

As human missions to Mars approach, the implications of pregnancy in space raise critical questions about conception, ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened ...

This image depicts the X-ray emission intensity distribution (keyed in colors) calculated by the proposed model and Earth’s ...