interacting with Earth’s magnetic field – they’re not sure what causes their unique movements. Specifically, researchers at NASA want to understand why some auroras flicker, others pulsate ...

Largely under the command of NASA ... auroras and connections between the sun and the Earth. "One of the most important aspects of auroras is that the polar regions are where the magnetic field ...

To help to that end, the rockets NASA wants to launch into the auroras are equipped with instruments to study the interaction between electrons and Earth's magnetic field. Each rocket will target ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

A massive hole some 62 times wider than the Earth has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere—and it could lead to aurora over the U.S. NASA captured ... when magnetic field lines instead grow strong ...

and occasionally producing spectacular aurora. But the Earth's magnetic fields are not as fixed as you might think. "We know that over the past 200 years, the magnetic field has weakened about 9 ...

Today, those NASA missions would be a centennial extension to continue building, exploring the science behind the northern lights and more generally to get at Earth's magnetic field and the ...

A solar storm hit Earth on Thursday and brought beautiful displays of the northern lights to dark skies ... trapped in our ...

Glowing nighttime lights of an aurora seen from the International Space Station's cupola module on June 19 Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA ... by the Earth's magnetic field ...

Farther out in the tail, the lines of Earth's magnetic field have been stretched and warped into something much messier. Physicists didn't think chorus waves could form amid the stretched-out mess ...