the height of its activity, and the beginning of the shift toward solar minimum. The sun's magnetic field last flipped toward the end of 2013. What causes this switch in polarity, and is it ...

NASA unveiled the first visuals of auroras on Neptune, captured by the James Webb Telescope. These auroras provide crucial ...

After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

This captivating picture shows the once-in-a-lifetime ... than the first one because it's influenced by the sun's magnetic field, which makes it line up with the solar wind, the stream of charged ...