Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is meant by solar storm and solar wind? – ...
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind near Earth. These particles, once thought to be minor players, appear capable ...
The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it exhales a vast stream of charged particles that sweeps outward through the solar system at hundreds of kilometers per ...
A wide gap in the sun’s magnetic field is blowing a river of charged particles straight at Earth this week, and the result is ...
A rocket carrying the first spacecraft designed to photograph solar wind crashing into Earth’s magnetic field is scheduled to ...