A joint European-Chinese spacecraft has blasted off into orbit to investigate what happens when extre­me winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into earth's magnetic shield.

The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.

Using data from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, scientists identified the Zwan-Wolf effect in ...

A new wave of start-ups are trying to harvest emissions-free energy from inside the Earth, but the industry still faces ...

At the start of the millennium, China and Europe seemed set to collaborate in space. That's no longer the case even as they ...

The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the ...

There’s a SMILE beaming down from high above Earth. On May 19, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of ...

NASA’s MAVEN mission has revealed a phenomenon in Mars’ atmosphere never seen before. Observations captured in December 2023 ...

Geologists cracked a 2-billion-year-old code buried deep in the Earth, and it's rewriting everything we thought we knew about ...

CEST on May 19, 2026, a Vega-C rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the Solar wind ...

An international space mission designed to reveal how Earth is protected from harmful solar activity has successfully ...

Geothermal power used to be limited to volcanic areas. But advances in exploration and drilling technology mean huge new ...