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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline En Route to Interstellar Space
December 13, 2010 — The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space ... > full story -
Global Eruption Rocks the Sun: Scientists Re-Evaluate Ideas About Solar Storms
December 13, 2010 — On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into ... > full story -
Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy in the Sun
December 1, 2010 — Researchers have studied the effects of the presence of dark matter in the Sun. According to their calculations, low mass dark matter particles could be transferring energy from the core to the ... > full story -
Sensor on Mars Rover to Measure Radiation Environment
November 9, 2010 — About eight months before the NASA rover Curiosity touches down on Mars in August 2012, the mission's science measurements will begin much closer to ... > full story -
Coronal Mass Ejections: Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Exploding Plasma Clouds on the Sun
November 8, 2010 — The Sun sporadically expels trillions of tons of million-degree hydrogen gas in explosions called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Such clouds are enormous in size (spanning millions of miles) and are ... > full story -
NASA Extends TIMED Mission for Fourth Time
November 5, 2010 — Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth's environment and space, not to mention collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA's ... > full story -
Out of THEMIS, ARTEMIS: Earth's Loss Is Moon's Gain
October 27, 2010 — Two micro-satellites originally launched into Earth's orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by scientists toward new orbits around the moon, extending study of the Earth and moon's interaction ... > full story -
Falkland Islands Radar Study Impacts Climate Research: New Equipment Will Monitor Activity Which Creates the ‘Southern Lights’
October 22, 2010 — Physicists and engineers have installed a radar system on the Falkland Islands to monitor the upper atmosphere activity which creates the 'Southern Lights'. The new radar joins a network of 22 such ... > full story -
Space Weather Mystery Solved: Link Found Between Electrons Trapped in Space and Upper Atmosphere's Diffuse Aurora
October 20, 2010 — New research has settled decades of scientific debate about a puzzling aspect of space weather. Researchers have found the final link between electrons trapped in space and the glow of light from the ... > full story -
Designing Instruments for a Robotic Space Probe to the Sun
October 6, 2010 — A researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun. NASA's Solar Probe Plus project is slated to launch by ... > full story
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