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The US government's scientific weather forecasting agency said a powerful geomagnetic solar storm reached dangerous levels.

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Polar warming is shaping the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we grow, and the stability of our minds and bodies.

Traveling up from the Mars equator toward its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region ...

Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue.

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

A systematic assessment in a recent study has shed light on the crucial role that polar regions play in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study, published in the ...

Relationship among charge distribution (charging), electric force, and plasma flow (convection) near the equatorial plane of the magnetosphere. Credit: KyotoU / Ebihara lab Scientists have discovered ...