The commercial astronauts onboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission are flying closer to Earth’s poles than anyone has before, offering ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is a shield that protects us from the sun’s harmful radiation. It’s a fascinating phenomenon that ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...

ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. This ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies through the solar atmosphere. Scientists hope the mission will reveal new ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment—these are just a few of the challenges space travelers face on long-duration missions, even before considering the psychological ...

Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield to protect a spacecraft when entering a planet's atmosphere or returning to Earth The Ultimate ...

Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken Earth’s magnetic field. If that happens, the author of the paper argues that we could see atmospheric ...

The spindle-shaped magnetic shielding cylinder (sMSC ... The self-shielded coil takes up less space in comparison to the normal non-moment Helmholtz coils. This method ensures the uniform performance ...