Since the Earth's ambipolar electric field is much weaker, this could be part of the set of factors which determine whether a planet is habitable in the long term.

The region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field is the magnetosphere. Observations have shown that, within this ...

NASA scientists have discovered a planet-wide electric field surrounding Earth, confirming a 60-year-old hypothesis. Studying the field could yield some vital information about how our planet's ...

Earth’s magnetic field acts like an invisible shield, protecting our planet from harmful cosmic radiation that would ...

Satellites Discovered Something Bizarre in the 1960s — We Finally Know What It Is It's called the "ambipolar electric field," and it explains one of the weirdest things our planet's atmosphere does.

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

NASA discovers Earth's ambipolar electric field The planet-wide electric field, first hypothesised 60 years ago, has finally been detected, thanks to NASA's Endurance Mission.

The Earth has an electric field that allows atmospheric particles to escape near the poles. Yet despite the concept being proposed around the time humans were first reaching space, it’s never ...

An international team of scientists at NASA and other institutions say they've discovered a weak, planet-wide electric field wrapping the Earth that was first hypothesized by researchers decades ago.

A team of scientists has used data obtained from a suborbital rocket used in the NASA Endurance mission a to reveal an electric field that is as widespread and likely as essential to the planet as the ...

After 60 years of searching, scientists found the global electric field extending Earth’s atmosphere into space. It took a journey to the Arctic, a new instrument, and a powerful rocket to find it.

This donut-like structure runs parallel to the equator in a ring around the edge of the liquid outer core, and could be responsible for driving our planet's protective magnetic field. Professor ...