Earth's Magnetosphere News Archive
This is an archive of articles about the Earth's magnetosphere from previous years. For an introduction to the Earth's magnetosphere, and more recent news articles, please visit the Earth's magnetosphere page. For recent news articles in other topics, check out the In the News section.
December 21, 2006: Scientists predict big solar cycle -- Science@NASA
December 13, 2006: New instrumentation helps scientists better predict space weather -- ScienceDaily
December 6, 2006: Magnetic whirlpools feed Earth's magnetosphere -- European Space Agency
November 16, 2006: Learning the magnetic ropes -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 4, 2006: Researchers discover magnetic islands are energy source for mysterious super high speed electrons -- SpaceRef.com
October 3, 2006: Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed -- European Space Agency
September 27, 2006: Mind the gap: space scientists uncover causes of gap in Van Allen belts -- ScienceDaily
August 24, 2006: ESA's Cluster mission establishes why Earth's aurorae shine -- ESA
June 20, 2006: Cluster makes an effervescent discovery -- EurekAlert!
May 24, 2006: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to build NASA's radiation belt storm probes -- SpaceRef.com
May 19, 2006: ESA's Cluster flies through Earth's electrical switch -- ESA Portal
May 9, 2006: NASA Goddard to build four new solar observing satellites -- SpaceDaily
April 1, 2006: Probes witness a new facet of Earth's magnetic behavior -- SpaceRef.com
February 22, 2006: Radiation "safe zone" migrates during solar cycle -- NASA GSFC
January 20, 2006: Magnetic field mission ends -- Spaceflight Now
January 12, 2006: Satellites see largest jet of particles created between Sun and Earth -- EurekAlert!
January 11, 2006: Space probes detect enormous natural particle accelerator -- NASA GSFC
August 11, 2005: From 'macro' to 'micro,' turbulence seen by cluster -- SpaceDaily
May 11, 2005: CU-Boulder to receive $12 million to participate in solar space mission -- SpaceRef.com
May 3, 2005: NASA selects Magnetospheric MultiScale instrument suite team -- NASA HQ
April 5, 2005: NASA study finds Earth's auroras are not mirror images -- NASA HQ
December 15, 2004: Earth's safe zone became hot during legendary solar storms -- NASA HQ
December 15, 2004: No safe place for satellites -- Space.com
November 19, 2004: Repelling cosmic rays with magnetic bubbles -- New Scientist
November 15, 2004: Real-time solar wind data from ACE make accurate forecasts of magnetic storms a reality -- ACE News
November 9, 2004: Direct evidence for reconnection in the solar wind near 1 AU -- ACE News
September 9, 2004: Earth's magnetic field is fading -- National Geographic
August 12, 2004: How the solar wind gets past the Earth's shield -- Universe Today
July 19, 2004: East meets west to solve space storm mystery -- SpaceRef.com
May 15, 2004: Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip -- New Scientist
April 29, 2004: Scientists announce cosmic ray theory breakthrough -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
January 19, 2004: Extra-solar planet found with a magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 29, 2003: Earth's inconstant magnetic field -- Science@NASA
December 17, 2003: A proton aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 12, 2003: Earth's magnetic field weakens 10 percent -- Space.com
December 4, 2003: Solar wind cracks Earth's magnetic field -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 3, 2003: Cracks in Earth's magnetic shield -- Science@NASA
December 3, 2003: Stormy space weather slips through the cracks -- NASA GSFC
November 14, 2003: Fireballs from space -- ScienCentral
October 29, 2003: Sun erupts in biggest storm in years -- CNN
October 27, 2003: How do we predict solar activity and space weather? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
October 25, 2003: Solar storm buffets Earth -- BBC News
October 9, 2003: Radio Jupiter -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 26, 2003: NASA selects two Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission proposals for feasibility studies -- NASA GSFC
September 9, 2003: Solar wind makes waves; killer electrons go surfing? -- NASA GSFC
March 31, 2003: Headed south? -- Scientific American
March 27, 2003: Is the Earth preparing to flip? -- BBC News
March 27, 2003: The Core: Hollywood fiction or science? -- National Geographic
February 25, 2003: Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal -- NASA
January 16, 2003: Burping Moon may solve magnetism mystery --Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 3, 2003: Can the Earth's magnetic field just "dwindle away"? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
December 4, 2002: Researchers make first images of Earth's plasma sheet, discover possible breakthrough for monitoring and predicting space weather -- NASA GSFC
November 25, 2002: The Earth's magnetic field -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 12, 2002: Satellite finds electrons brought to near-light speed -- Spaceflight Now
November 7, 2002: UC Berkeley analysis of satellite data turns up first direct evidence that magnetic processes in space can accelerate electrons to near light speed -- UC Berkeley
May 9, 2002: Earth's space storm shield offers protection at a price -- NASA GSFC
March 20, 2002: North magnetic pole could be leaving Canada -- CNN
March 13, 2002: The largest thing in the solar system -- Physics News Update
March 6, 2002: Hubble eyes bow shock near a young star -- NASA JPL
March 6, 2002: NASA's FUSE satellite lit again -- NASA GSFC
March 4, 2002: Jupiter then and now -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
February 28, 2002: Unique spacecraft group probes Jupiter magnetosphere -- UniSci
February 28, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region -- Spaceflight Now
February 27, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region, team approach reveals -- NASA JPL
January 18, 2002: Galileo falls asleep during final mission -- New Scientist
January 8, 2002: Magnetic 'bubbles' may be key force in galaxy clusters -- Eurekalert
December 10, 2001: Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 10, 2001: Jupiter's Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- NASA JPL
December 10, 2001: Cluster tunes into Earth's frequency, pinpoints location of auroral radio emissions -- NASA GSFC
December 4, 2001: Mars' lumpy magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
October 3, 2001: New model of intergalactic magnetic fields -- Physics News Update
September 18, 2001: ESA Cluster spacecraft fly into Earth's magnetotail -- UniSci
August 13, 2001: ESA's Cluster satellites tune in to the dawn chorus -- Spaceflight Now
July 25, 2001: Wind spacecraft flies through the spigot where the solar wind pours into Earth's magnetosphere -- NASA GSFC
July 25, 2001: NASA's Wind spacecraft flies through Earth's magnetic tail and captures rare event in action -- UC Berkeley
July 25, 2001: Satellite spies magnetic 'rubber band' -- CNN
July 17, 2001: Exploring Earth's magnetosphere: The Cluster mission -- UniSci
July 16, 2001: Surfing and diving in the Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster celebrates one year of science excellence in orbit -- ESA
June 27, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spaceflight Now
May 31, 2001: Jupiter particles' escape route found -- NASA JPL
March 29, 2001: Aurora Alaskan style -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 8, 2001: Earth's magnetic field was intense in dinosaur age -- CNN
March 2, 2001: Early Earth's magnetic field stronger than believed -- UniSci
January 31, 2001: The solar wind at Mars -- Science@NASA
January 26, 2001: IMAGE reveals plasmasphere shoulder, trough and tail -- UniSci
January 25, 2001: Space 'weather' close-up -- BBC News
January 25, 2001: Cassini camera sees the invisible during Jupiter flyby -- Spaceflight Now
January 25, 2001: Earth's invisible magnetic tail -- Science@NASA
January 23, 2001: Galileo wrapping up Jovian magnetosphere study -- Spaceflight Now
January 16, 2001: A shocking time for Cluster 2 -- Spaceflight Now
December 31, 2000: Spacecraft gets close to Jupiter -- BBC News
December 30, 2000: Cassini visualizes the invisible, tracks giant storms -- NASA JPL
December 30, 2000: Cassini and Galileo space probes double-team Jupiter -- Spaceflight Now
December 19, 2000: Spacecraft tunes in to the music of Jupiter -- CNN.com
December 17, 2000: Magnetic field 'umbrellas' shield Martian atmosphere -- Spaceflight Now
December 3, 2000: Earth's north magnetic pole -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 24, 2000: Cluster 2 satellites to begin the scientific commissioning -- Spaceflight Now
March 24, 2000: The RADAR cop in space -- NASA MSFC
March 10, 2000: The biggest thing in the solar system -- NASA
March 7, 2000: Mission to the magnetosphere -- CNN
March 2, 2000: Polar substorm -- NASA MSFC
February 24, 2000: Computer simulations reveal the workings of the dynamo behind Earth's magnetic field -- ScienceDaily
February 24, 2000: Space weather mission nears launch -- NASA MSFC
February 21, 2000: Interplanetary shock wave passes Earth -- NASA MSFC
December 29, 1999: The warp and woof of a geomagnetic storm -- NASA MSFC
December 23, 1999: Unusual aurora during solar wind dropout -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 22, 1999: Taking pictures of the invisible -- tracking weather above the sky -- ScienceDaily
October 19, 1999: Earth's magnetic North Pole -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 17, 1999: Auroral camera will help interpret data from Cassini flyby -- NASA MSFC
June 18, 1999: Non-radial IMF connection between the Earth's bow shock and L1 -- ACE News
November 12, 1998: Astrophysicists use virtual reality to chase Earth's tail -- University of Warwick
October 28, 1998: All the world's a stage, and the ions merely players... -- NASA MSFC press release
October 27, 1998: Seeing the invisible -- NASA MSFC press release
April 2, 1998: An upstream magnetospheric event observed by EPAM -- ACE News
December 13, 2006: New instrumentation helps scientists better predict space weather -- ScienceDaily
December 6, 2006: Magnetic whirlpools feed Earth's magnetosphere -- European Space Agency
November 16, 2006: Learning the magnetic ropes -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 4, 2006: Researchers discover magnetic islands are energy source for mysterious super high speed electrons -- SpaceRef.com
October 3, 2006: Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed -- European Space Agency
September 27, 2006: Mind the gap: space scientists uncover causes of gap in Van Allen belts -- ScienceDaily
August 24, 2006: ESA's Cluster mission establishes why Earth's aurorae shine -- ESA
June 20, 2006: Cluster makes an effervescent discovery -- EurekAlert!
May 24, 2006: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to build NASA's radiation belt storm probes -- SpaceRef.com
May 19, 2006: ESA's Cluster flies through Earth's electrical switch -- ESA Portal
May 9, 2006: NASA Goddard to build four new solar observing satellites -- SpaceDaily
April 1, 2006: Probes witness a new facet of Earth's magnetic behavior -- SpaceRef.com
February 22, 2006: Radiation "safe zone" migrates during solar cycle -- NASA GSFC
January 20, 2006: Magnetic field mission ends -- Spaceflight Now
January 12, 2006: Satellites see largest jet of particles created between Sun and Earth -- EurekAlert!
January 11, 2006: Space probes detect enormous natural particle accelerator -- NASA GSFC
August 11, 2005: From 'macro' to 'micro,' turbulence seen by cluster -- SpaceDaily
May 11, 2005: CU-Boulder to receive $12 million to participate in solar space mission -- SpaceRef.com
May 3, 2005: NASA selects Magnetospheric MultiScale instrument suite team -- NASA HQ
April 5, 2005: NASA study finds Earth's auroras are not mirror images -- NASA HQ
December 15, 2004: Earth's safe zone became hot during legendary solar storms -- NASA HQ
December 15, 2004: No safe place for satellites -- Space.com
November 19, 2004: Repelling cosmic rays with magnetic bubbles -- New Scientist
November 15, 2004: Real-time solar wind data from ACE make accurate forecasts of magnetic storms a reality -- ACE News
November 9, 2004: Direct evidence for reconnection in the solar wind near 1 AU -- ACE News
September 9, 2004: Earth's magnetic field is fading -- National Geographic
August 12, 2004: How the solar wind gets past the Earth's shield -- Universe Today
July 19, 2004: East meets west to solve space storm mystery -- SpaceRef.com
May 15, 2004: Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip -- New Scientist
April 29, 2004: Scientists announce cosmic ray theory breakthrough -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
January 19, 2004: Extra-solar planet found with a magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 29, 2003: Earth's inconstant magnetic field -- Science@NASA
December 17, 2003: A proton aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 12, 2003: Earth's magnetic field weakens 10 percent -- Space.com
December 4, 2003: Solar wind cracks Earth's magnetic field -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 3, 2003: Cracks in Earth's magnetic shield -- Science@NASA
December 3, 2003: Stormy space weather slips through the cracks -- NASA GSFC
November 14, 2003: Fireballs from space -- ScienCentral
October 29, 2003: Sun erupts in biggest storm in years -- CNN
October 27, 2003: How do we predict solar activity and space weather? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
October 25, 2003: Solar storm buffets Earth -- BBC News
October 9, 2003: Radio Jupiter -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 26, 2003: NASA selects two Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission proposals for feasibility studies -- NASA GSFC
September 9, 2003: Solar wind makes waves; killer electrons go surfing? -- NASA GSFC
March 31, 2003: Headed south? -- Scientific American
March 27, 2003: Is the Earth preparing to flip? -- BBC News
March 27, 2003: The Core: Hollywood fiction or science? -- National Geographic
February 25, 2003: Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal -- NASA
January 16, 2003: Burping Moon may solve magnetism mystery --Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 3, 2003: Can the Earth's magnetic field just "dwindle away"? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
December 4, 2002: Researchers make first images of Earth's plasma sheet, discover possible breakthrough for monitoring and predicting space weather -- NASA GSFC
November 25, 2002: The Earth's magnetic field -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 12, 2002: Satellite finds electrons brought to near-light speed -- Spaceflight Now
November 7, 2002: UC Berkeley analysis of satellite data turns up first direct evidence that magnetic processes in space can accelerate electrons to near light speed -- UC Berkeley
May 9, 2002: Earth's space storm shield offers protection at a price -- NASA GSFC
March 20, 2002: North magnetic pole could be leaving Canada -- CNN
March 13, 2002: The largest thing in the solar system -- Physics News Update
March 6, 2002: Hubble eyes bow shock near a young star -- NASA JPL
March 6, 2002: NASA's FUSE satellite lit again -- NASA GSFC
March 4, 2002: Jupiter then and now -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
February 28, 2002: Unique spacecraft group probes Jupiter magnetosphere -- UniSci
February 28, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region -- Spaceflight Now
February 27, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region, team approach reveals -- NASA JPL
January 18, 2002: Galileo falls asleep during final mission -- New Scientist
January 8, 2002: Magnetic 'bubbles' may be key force in galaxy clusters -- Eurekalert
December 10, 2001: Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 10, 2001: Jupiter's Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- NASA JPL
December 10, 2001: Cluster tunes into Earth's frequency, pinpoints location of auroral radio emissions -- NASA GSFC
December 4, 2001: Mars' lumpy magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
October 3, 2001: New model of intergalactic magnetic fields -- Physics News Update
September 18, 2001: ESA Cluster spacecraft fly into Earth's magnetotail -- UniSci
August 13, 2001: ESA's Cluster satellites tune in to the dawn chorus -- Spaceflight Now
July 25, 2001: Wind spacecraft flies through the spigot where the solar wind pours into Earth's magnetosphere -- NASA GSFC
July 25, 2001: NASA's Wind spacecraft flies through Earth's magnetic tail and captures rare event in action -- UC Berkeley
July 25, 2001: Satellite spies magnetic 'rubber band' -- CNN
July 17, 2001: Exploring Earth's magnetosphere: The Cluster mission -- UniSci
July 16, 2001: Surfing and diving in the Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster celebrates one year of science excellence in orbit -- ESA
June 27, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spaceflight Now
May 31, 2001: Jupiter particles' escape route found -- NASA JPL
March 29, 2001: Aurora Alaskan style -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 8, 2001: Earth's magnetic field was intense in dinosaur age -- CNN
March 2, 2001: Early Earth's magnetic field stronger than believed -- UniSci
January 31, 2001: The solar wind at Mars -- Science@NASA
January 26, 2001: IMAGE reveals plasmasphere shoulder, trough and tail -- UniSci
January 25, 2001: Space 'weather' close-up -- BBC News
January 25, 2001: Cassini camera sees the invisible during Jupiter flyby -- Spaceflight Now
January 25, 2001: Earth's invisible magnetic tail -- Science@NASA
January 23, 2001: Galileo wrapping up Jovian magnetosphere study -- Spaceflight Now
January 16, 2001: A shocking time for Cluster 2 -- Spaceflight Now
December 31, 2000: Spacecraft gets close to Jupiter -- BBC News
December 30, 2000: Cassini visualizes the invisible, tracks giant storms -- NASA JPL
December 30, 2000: Cassini and Galileo space probes double-team Jupiter -- Spaceflight Now
December 19, 2000: Spacecraft tunes in to the music of Jupiter -- CNN.com
December 17, 2000: Magnetic field 'umbrellas' shield Martian atmosphere -- Spaceflight Now
December 3, 2000: Earth's north magnetic pole -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 24, 2000: Cluster 2 satellites to begin the scientific commissioning -- Spaceflight Now
March 24, 2000: The RADAR cop in space -- NASA MSFC
March 10, 2000: The biggest thing in the solar system -- NASA
March 7, 2000: Mission to the magnetosphere -- CNN
March 2, 2000: Polar substorm -- NASA MSFC
February 24, 2000: Computer simulations reveal the workings of the dynamo behind Earth's magnetic field -- ScienceDaily
February 24, 2000: Space weather mission nears launch -- NASA MSFC
February 21, 2000: Interplanetary shock wave passes Earth -- NASA MSFC
December 29, 1999: The warp and woof of a geomagnetic storm -- NASA MSFC
December 23, 1999: Unusual aurora during solar wind dropout -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 22, 1999: Taking pictures of the invisible -- tracking weather above the sky -- ScienceDaily
October 19, 1999: Earth's magnetic North Pole -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 17, 1999: Auroral camera will help interpret data from Cassini flyby -- NASA MSFC
June 18, 1999: Non-radial IMF connection between the Earth's bow shock and L1 -- ACE News
November 12, 1998: Astrophysicists use virtual reality to chase Earth's tail -- University of Warwick
October 28, 1998: All the world's a stage, and the ions merely players... -- NASA MSFC press release
October 27, 1998: Seeing the invisible -- NASA MSFC press release
April 2, 1998: An upstream magnetospheric event observed by EPAM -- ACE News
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