While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

Researchers account for constant change in plasma's composition within models centered around the solar atmosphere.

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

Plasma waves can experience sudden changes in frequency with drastic effects, which are important to correctly model.

It’s not every day a student experiment hitches a ride aboard a NASA rocket, but that’s exactly what a University of Delaware student team achieved earlier this week. The Terrier-Improved Malemute ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, October 16 at 11am for the talk "Plasma Bubbles in the Earth's Ionosphere: Theory and Observations" by Giorgio Picanco of ...