A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...

The solar wind is the never-ending rain of electrically charged particles given out by the sun. It pervades the solar system and its effects can be felt on Earth. Yet despite decades of study ...

In nature, the ionosphere contains dust from the ablation of meteors, planets have rings of dust that are charged by solar wind particles trapped in their magnetospheres, and objects without ...

According to the Russell-McPherron effect, the magnetic fields of the Earth and the solar wind momentarily coincide, creating "cracks" that allow charged particles to accelerate and intensify the ...

Aerosol particles, also known as particulate matter, are everywhere. Some are kicked up by wind or produced from biological ...