Science news articles about 'solar particles'

... and the National Science Foundation. "The discovery overturns a long-standing belief about how and when most of the solar particles penetrate Earth's magnetic field, and could be used to predict when ...

... during several loops around the inner solar system, making sure the panels stay ... birthplace of the highest energy solar particles. And, as with all missions of discovery, Solar Probe is likely to raise ...

... radio emission the Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR). It is generated high above the Earth, by the same shaft of solar particles that then causes an aurora to light the sky beneath. ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa, July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers have determined that radio waves generated by solar particles high above the Earth travel into space in a narrow plane.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle....

NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.

Reflected solar particles can reveal details about the surfaces of other worlds

Solar particles bounced back into space by the lunar surface are giving scientists new insight into how the sun affects the moon, a new study says.