Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space After Explorer 1 launched, though, they noticed that their instrument was detecting significantly higher levels of radiation than expected.

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Lauren Blum receives funding from NASA and the NSF. There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above your head at any given ...