ESA-China SMILE mission lifts off to deliver first global images of Earth's magnetosphere The SMILE mission developed jointly ...

Mission Highlight: SMILE The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are targeting tonight, ...

Joint ESA-China SMILE mission set for launch to study Earth's magnetic shield A pioneering joint ESA-China science mission to ...

A joint European and Chinese spacecraft is set to launch Tuesday to examine what happens when powerful solar storms strike ...

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield ...

The China-Europe jointly developed Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) was launched into orbit on Tuesday, expected to usher in a new era in space weather forecasting and mark a ...

Like a supersonic jet being blasted with high-speed winds, Earth is constantly being bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the sun known as solar wind. Just like wind around a jet or water ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations show that the morning side of the ...

An image of the Earth and moon comparing ocean tides (shown as a small blue ring) to plasmasphere tides (shown as a large orange ring) The moon exerts a previously unknown tidal force on the "plasma ...

Two scientists discovered a new type of 'whistler,' an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth's magnetosphere. Two University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

SMILE is designed to get answers to what happens when a stream of solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic shield and the ...