Solar Wind News

On September 8, 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in the Utah desert due to a parachute failure, shattering its samples of solar wind particles. Desp

A Seattle company is exploring methods to extract helium-3, an isotope produced by the Sun and deposited on the Moon's surface by solar wind. This helium-3 has

A new study suggests that giant waves of solar wind may have been responsible for stripping Mars of its atmosphere, potentially explaining why the Red Planet lo

New research suggests that the severity of geomagnetic storms, magnetic disturbances in Earth's outer atmosphere, might be more extreme than previously understo

New research published in Nature suggests that the saturation of geomagnetic activity with solar wind strength can be explained by a regression to the mean effe