The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.

A multi-institutional team of astrophysicists headquartered at Boston University, led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher, has made a breakthrough discovery in our understanding of the cosmic forces that ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...