Next meeting: The La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee next meets at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St. The agenda will be posted 72 hours in advance at ...

Ancient tree rings record evidence of extreme space weather, such as geomagnetic storms and solar radiation bursts.

A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

Yet the radiation environs there are particularly harsh. "The charged particle environment at Europa's location is immense," Cynthia Phillips, a NASA planetary geologist and project staff scientist ...

The colossal ball of hot gas at the center of our solar system will be lively for the next year, NASA said. The sun has ...

According to new research, lightning storms can rip high-energy "killer" electrons out of the planet's radiation belt and ...

Today, scientists are keeping a close eye on Earth’s magnetic field. One area of particular interest is the South Atlantic ...

"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

Three partner universities in Australia aim to mature research for Change Climate’s Byoxy bio-epoxy resin formulation for ...

During a pole reversal, Earth’s magnetic poles swap locations. Essentially, the north pole is transformed into the south pole ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station including studies of solar wind, a ...