The magnetosphere is a vast, comet-shaped bubble that shields the Earth from solar and cosmic radiation as well as from the solar wind.
Credit: NASA
The aviation industry underestimated the effects of space weather until an incident on Oct. 30, 2025, when a JetBlue Airbus A320 flying from Cancun, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, experienced an uncommanded nose-down pitch, resulting in a sudden drop in altitude. A post-incident investigation...
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