Her research provides new insights for understanding how the atmosphere of Mars has evolved over time. Unlike Earth, Mars ...

A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in Reading, UK. The hot region, which had a temperature of over 750 K, ...

First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

scientists reported that a powerful burst of solar wind in January 2017 compressed Jupiter’s magnetic field, triggering dramatic auroral activity which heated the planet’s upper atmosphere by ...

Mars' upper atmosphere has ... us to understand how the mars atmosphere is being lost today and by extension how much has been lost over the history of the solar system," Deighan said.

This material is spread throughout the solar system ... dust falls into the upper atmosphere, which results in shooting stars. When a planet passes through the orbit of a comet, that planet ...

The results challenge many assumptions about solar wind acceleration mechanisms. It all begins in the Sun's lower atmosphere where "open" magnetic ... this expansion of open field lines is much ...