Space weather often manifests as substorms, where a beautiful auroral display such as the Northern Lights is accompanied by an electrical current in space which has effects at earth that can interfere ...

One of the most dynamic events in the interaction between the Sun and the Earth is a 'substorm', an explosive reshaping of the Earth's outer magnetic field. To better understand substorms, scientists ...

The immediate space around Earth has been an area of close study for several decades now. It is the space where particles with energy, like constituents of solar wind, are present, and are responsible ...

Five satellites launched last February to probe magnetic storms around the Earth will move into prime observing position next month, but they already have produced important new information on the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s THEMIS mission successfully launched Saturday, Feb. 17, at 6:01 p.m. EST from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. THEMIS stands for the Time History of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Scientists have uncovered a significant new clue in the long ...

NASA/UC Berkeley mission peers into the poles’ majestic light shows Berkeley — NASA is poised to launch on Feb. 15 five identical space probes – the largest number of spacecraft ever attempted by the ...

A flotillaof NASA probes has solved the 30-year mystery behind the most colorful auroradisplays on Earth and the explosive magnetic "substorms" that spawnthem. NASA?s fiveTHEMIS spacecraft in ...

Evolution of auroral substorms revealed by physicists at University of Warwick using the same methods that link people through social media 'If you like this magnetometer, you might like this one too: ...