The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has traced floods of energetic electrons hurled out by the Sun back to two distinct sources, marking a major advance in space weather research. The ...
Solar Orbiter has identified the Sun’s dual “engines” for superfast electrons: explosive flares and sweeping coronal mass ejections. By catching over 300 events close to their origin, the mission has ...
Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...
Solar Orbiter observed more than 300 bursts of ‘Solar Energetic Electrons’ between November 2020 and December 2022. For the first time, we clearly see the connection between the energetic electrons in ...
A new research paper produced by a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory could be good news for engineers who design satellites, helping them figure out how to shield the equipment from ...
The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...
A new study measured the correlation between the number of electrons in space and the sudden release of electrical charges from satellites. reading time 2 minutes In 1994, two Canadian TV satellites ...
So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...
New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...