A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

Space weather refers to the effects of solar activity – particularly solar storms – throughout the heliosphere, the vast region of space influenced by the Sun, extending out far beyond Pluto. Within ...

NASA finds a historic link between magnetic field shifts and oxygen levels, possibly key to life’s evolution on Earth.

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

The advance in technology is such that human beings can now go back thousands of years to closely experience processes that took place on Earth and have been recreated. This is the ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA’s Parker ...