Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid Ryugu It played a role in the formation of the asteroid and maybe even in the formation of the giant planets.

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the gas giant we see today. In fact, today’s Jupiter would look like a ...

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting ...

For the first time in history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown through a region of the Sun where explosive magnetic ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct structure. Jupiter's gravity, often called the "architect" of our solar ...

Solar Waves Squash And Massively Heat Up Jupiter’s Magnetic Field 2-3 Times A Month The giant planets are equally vulnerable to the effects of the solar wind as Earth is.

Under normal solar conditions, GPS satellites orbit within the magnetosphere—the protective magnetic bubble carved out by Earth’s magnetic field.

This is an illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the Sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband.

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest-ever flyby.