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MAVEN Spots Zwan‑Wolf Effect in Mars’ Ionosphere for the First Time

The peer‑reviewed find links a rare particle‑squeezing process to solar‑storm changes in an unmagnetized atmosphere.

Two X-Class Solar Flares Hours Apart Trigger Dayside Radio Blackouts

JWST Charts Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere in 3D, Exposing Auroral Bands and a Cooling Trend

Chandrayaan-3 Data Reveal Energetic, Dense Near-Surface Plasma at the Moon’s South Pole

Russian ISS Spacewalk Installs Plasma Injector on Nauka, Yields First Space-Grown Semiconductor Crystals

JWST Reveals Unexplained ‘Dark Beads’ and Asymmetric Star Pattern Over Saturn’s North Pole

NASA Launches SEED Mission to Probe Radio-Disrupting Ionospheric Clouds

Magnetic Tornadoes Create Mysterious Earth-Sized UV Ovals at Jupiter’s Poles

Google Leverages Millions of Android Phones to Map Earth's Ionosphere

NASA Confirms Existence of Long-Hypothesized Ambipolar Electric Field

NASA Confirms Existence of Earth's Ambipolar Electric Field

New Electromagnetic Wave Discovery Alters Understanding of Earth's Radiation Belts