We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?

This, they claim, means it must have originated in the highly magnetized region that surrounds a star: the magnetosphere. The researchers obtained their result by measuring the FRB’s scintillation, ...

The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) which aims to study the ...