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

Now, more than half a century later, NASA has finally recorded this theoretical field and measured a change in electric potential of only 0.55 volts, the correct amount needed to send ions at ...

How Earth’s Global Electric Field Works. Just as water in a pipe tends to flow from areas with high pressure to areas of low pressure, differences in electrical potential can push and pull ...

The rocket measured an electric potential change of merely 0.55 volts across a 322-mile altitude range. "A half a volt is almost nothing – it's only about as strong as a watch battery ...

The Endurance measured an electric potential of 0.55 volts – less than most pocket batteries – over a range of 518 kilometers (322 miles) in altitude. Yet that might be enough to have had a ...

NASA’s Endurance rocket has measured Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time, revealing how it lifts particles into space. (CREDIT: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Lacey Young) ...

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 ...