Scientists at NASA are closely monitoring a vast region of weakened magnetic intensity—known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)—due to the unique challenges it poses for satellites. From South ...

Not all that far above your head is a particle accelerator that would put the Large Hadron Collider to shame. There, charged particles, some carried in by the solar wind, some created by cosmic rays, ...

As part of the EU project “Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice”, experts from 14 institutions located in 10 European countries have spent three years combing the Antarctic ice sheet to find the ideal location ...

The seemingly sterile vacuum of space isn't much "cleaner" than Earth, with cosmic dust constantly raining down and coating our planet's surface. Now, researchers have found a way to trace back Arctic ...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was ...