From the largest planets to comets, there are a variety of worlds in the Solar System that experience aurorae. On Earth, the Northern and Southern Lights are caused by electrically charged particles ...

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little in common with the ice in a household freezer. Yet new experiments show that ...

Apollo astronauts discovered an unexpected enemy on the Moon. Fine dust, kicked up by their movements and attracted by static ...

No matter how many times you see them, the northern lights, or aurora borealis—and their Southern Hemisphere equivalent, the aurora australis—are an ethereal, breathtaking sight. Dancing silently in ...

The northern and southern lights, especially active lately, have been treating sky watchers to spectacular shows. But what ...

Lunar dust may look harmless, but new research reveals it poses a serious threat to spacecraft. Scientists have uncovered how ...

Last weekend, much of the United States had the opportunity to view the northern lights! Right here in eastern Iowa, many of our viewers sent in incredible photographs. If you've seen some of them ...

Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give ...

As enthusiasm for viewing the aurora grows, scientists are also working to understand their beauty as well as their environmental impacts.

Pathogens have distinct electrical charges, shapes and sizes. Measuring how quickly they move through an electric field can help researchers separate different species in a sample in minutes. When you ...