Chorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new ...

Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they lack magnetic fields. What happens there is very different from what happens on Earth, but as a presentation from the American Geophysical Union Meeting ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

Earth’s powerful magnetic field shields life on the planet from the severe cosmic radiation as we know it. This is what sets our blue world apart from Venus and Mars. However, the Earth’s ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

Even as we bask in the knowledge that our neighboring planet Mars is currently home to a multitude of still functional landers, a triplet of rovers and with an ever-growing satellite network as ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have published a spectacular new polarised light image of ...

Of the terrestrial bodies, only Mercury and Earth have significant internally generated magnetic fields. It is not known whether Venus and the Moon had intrinsic fields in the past.