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.

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 ...

A strange electric field around the Earth, long suspected to exist, has been detected for the very first time, and it is believed to cause a polar wind which launches particles into space at ...