ESA’s Swarm satellite mission has discovered a mysterious magnetic wave that "oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometers (932 mi.) a year." Credit: ESA ...

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Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Space is a hostile environment for humans. Even on Mars, settlers might have a hard time coping with potentially lethal ...

A rare, violent solar storm could knock out vulnerable satellite systems and leave ships stranded without navigation, ...

University of Colorado Boulder scientists are participating in five lander missions to the moon in the next few years to ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

The massive annual spring migration of America's birds – millions of them – is underway. Here's how to follow along at home.