Scientists detected the breach after a minor G-1 class solar storm slammed into Earth on Nov. 3, ... The magnetosphere hole closed around 6 hours after it first opened.

The magnetosphere. Yes, the magnetic field generated by the Earth's molten core that protects us from the hellish power of solar winds is deteriorating. Skip to content ...

Researchers have detected fluctuations in Earth's magnetosphere created by the same tidal forces that the moon exerts on the oceans. The moon exerts a previously unknown tidal force on the "plasma ...

A mysterious shock wave hit Earth last night and cracked the region that protects us from radiation. While scientists do not know its origin, they believe it came from a solar flare from the sun.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

After reanalyzing the data from the Voyager 2 flyby, the researchers found that the planet's magnetosphere was only compressed to the degree it was observed around 4 percent of the time.

Prior research has shown that as the solar wind arrives, Alfvén waves are generated and the resulting energy heats up the plasma in the magnetosphere. However, the plasma there is too thin to ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...