NASA's research on the 2024 total solar eclipse reveals new insights into the Sun's effects on Earth's atmosphere, thanks to ...

Teams are starting to analyze data from the total solar eclipse to learn more about the sun’s corona, gravity waves and changes in Earth’s ionosphere.

The outbursts of charged particles from the Sun are messing with complex GPS systems that are vital to modern tractors ...

The ionosphere is the upper portion of Earth's atmosphere consisting of free electrons, which are influenced by solar winds and geomagnetic storms. Radio waves from satellites to Earth travel at ...

We are quickly approaching the most active part of the Sun's 11-year cycle. Our star is flinging a barrage of charged streams ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

Researchers have discovered and are observing dark shapes appearing on the surface of Jupiter, with each of these 'dark ovals ...

Utilizing millions of smartphones, researchers mapped the ionosphere, uncovering insights into atmospheric phenomena and ...

A study of 56,000 Sun-like stars has revealed that stars like ours may experience powerful "superflares" about once per ...

We are all familiar with the atmosphere of the Earth and part of this, the ionosphere, is a layer of weakly ionized plasma. It extends from 50 to 1,500 km above the planet. It’s a diffuse layer but ...

During the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, scientists observed the ionosphere — a charged layer in Earth’s upper atmosphere — rising in altitude during the eclipse.