SOLAR flares can knock out satellites, kill GPS navigation, trigger power blackouts, and irradiate astronauts. A single major solar storm could cost the global economy $2.4 trillion over five ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, ...

A new educational attraction in Swartz Creek is offering families a chance to explore the solar system without leaving the ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.