11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... signals that stem from Earth’s core, mantle, crust and oceans, as well as from the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Although it is not necessarily a sign that Earth’s magnetic poles are going to flip – a phenomenon that has occurred...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... to be whizzing around the red dwarf in a one to five day orbit and interacting with the plasma in GJ 1151’s magnetosphere. Although it is more likely that the radio emission came from GJ 1151, it could have also been generated...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
...improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun. These include, Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM); HelioSwarm: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... System. BepiColombo consists of two scientific orbiters: the European Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). Even though the spacecraft will be quite far away from Venus during the first...
22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
... distant galaxies and quasars, to help understand how aspects of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) work, to study the magnetosphere of exoplanets and to provide insights into the large-scale structure of the Universe, amongst other things. If you...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
...improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun. These include, Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM); HelioSwarm: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction...
