Spacecraft traversing the auroral oval respond primarily to the field-aligned currents at its poleward and equatorward borders that are part of a solenoidal current system. If electric and magnetic field measurements are ...

Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids fulfill the prediction of Lagrange that orbits can be stable when a small body orbits in specific locations relative to its ‘parent’ planet and the Sun. The first such Trojan asteroid was discovered ...

Photos showing AU attendees at CASCA 2006, held in Calgary in early June 2006.

Photos of remote labs and DE student.

This is a multiple-choice and text entry test on the definition of logarithms.

Night sky at Athabasca with Athabasca University Robotic Telescope in foreground.

We have developed a nonlinear fitting routine for the Harris current sheet based on magnetic data, and applied it to 71 plasma sheet crossings by Cluster. In most cases this simple fit appeared to represent the magnetic ...

"what the world needs now is a good $500 magnetometer"