Solar Wind

'New kind' of explosion on Sun's surface charged by its magnetic field discovered by NASA's Parker probe

The Sun's magnetic field lines are in constant flux — snapping and realigning in an explosive, natural process researchers still don't understand all too well.

One year in, NASA's Parker Probe returns clues to long-held mysteries about solar wind, sun's atmosphere

One of Parker's interesting findings is that strong waves of charged particles from the Sun flips the direction of its magnetic field periodically.

NASA's Parker probe to the sun reveals surprises about solar wind, a year into its 7-year mission

The findings throw light on how space weather is spawned, and violent solar wind that can harm satellites and electronics on Earth.

Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter catches solar flare in the act, gears up to watch the Moon's surface react

The mission also photographed high-resolution closeups of the surface earlier this week.

Surprise! Undiscovered dust, asteroids rings may share orbits with Mercury, Venus

It's not every day you discover something new & amazing in our very own planetary neighborhood.

Mystery of swirls on Moon may finally have an answer — they're formed by solar wind

Swirls on the moon seem to be a kind of sunburn from how solar wind & the crust magnetic field interact.

Moon's surface acts like a 'chemical factory' that can produce water: NASA

Silica in space — whether on the Moon or as space dust — can be used to synthesize water: Researcher.

Mystery of 'lunar swirls' finds answers in the moon's volcanic, magnetic past

The findings resolve a long-standing puzzle as to the phenomena linking magnetism and lunar swirls.

What the Parker Solar Probe is chasing on it's 7-year-long study of our Sun

The probe will weave through the corona 24 times to study its uneven composition

NASA spacecraft shows how 'stolen' electrons enable rare aurora on Mars

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft just reported a new type of Martian aurora — a very rare phenomenon anyway.