Science news articles about 'magnetic shield'

Experimental evidence confirms that a plan to protect spaceships from radiation using magnetic fields would work.

A new study found that a portable magnetic shield could be the key to protecting spacefarers during long-duration missions.

... latitude over the Southern hemisphere. The holes form over the daylit side of Earth, on the side of the magnetic shield facing the sun. The simulation also showed how the leaks develop. As solar ...

... 14, 2008, confirmed that the planet has a global magnetic field, as first discovered by the Mariner 10 ... events, form open windows in the planet's magnetic shield through which the solar wind may enter ...

... will reach Earth and predict how much energy it will deliver to our magnetosphere, which is Earth's protective magnetic shield. "Before this unique mission, measurements and the subsequent data of a ...