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2026-06-05: New study reveals how magnetic fields may form near Earth
2026-05-26: Kirunaforskare får asteroid uppkallad efter sig
2026-05-19: Together towards Venus: IRF part of strengthened Sweden–India space collaboration
2026-03-23: Solar wind waves shape our space environment
2026-03-22: Moon’s surface revealed as an efficient source of negative ions
2025-06-24: Swedish-built instrument discovers new type of particle on the lunar surface
2025-06-03: Invisible waves heat space – new research shows the way
2025-03-06: New research unveils the dynamic battle between Mars atmosphere and the solar wind
2024-09-19: New study in Nature uncovers unexpected interaction between Mars and the solar wind
2024-08-15: Juice towards the first of its kind Moon-Earth flyby – Swedish instruments in operation
2024-05-29: New research on one of the Universe's most efficient particle accelerators – collisionless shocks
2023-11-21: Saturn is eating its D ring – resulting in a complex upper atmosphere
2023-11-15: IRF instruments for potential future mission to either Mars or Earth's Orbit
2023-04-14: Successful launch of the Juice spacecraft!
2023-03-23: Successful scientific experiment with sounding rocket for space scientists in Kiruna in collaboration with SSC Esrange
2023-03-09: Space scientists in Kiruna will use sounding rocket to create colorful clouds for aurora studies
2022-11-22: New research reveals space debris, invisible meteors and near-Earth asteroids
2022-10-03: Swedish space instrument will study the Moon on board a Turkish spacecraft
2022-09-26: New research explains physical processes of Mars and Venus plasma environments
2022-06-07: Waves in space affect the key process that creates solar storms
2022-05-26: New research reveals how current is limited in space
2022-05-11: Doctoral thesis reveals the technology behind a space instrument built to study Jupiter
2022-03-23: Unique particle instrument tailored for the harsh Jovian environment
2021-11-24: Sofia Bergman's research gives scientists an opportunity to study low-energy ions
2021-07-08: The first Swedish scientific results from Solar Orbiter
2021-01-14: Lack of UV brings new understanding of cometary dust into light
2020-11-25: Unique tests available at Sweden's IRF SpaceLab
2020-11-18: Swedish space instrument participates in the search for life around Jupiter
2020-11-11: New findings: Surprisingly little water has escaped to space from Venus
2020-08-21: Swedish space technology ready to explore oceans under the ice on Jupiter's moon Ganymede
2020-07-01: Swedish Institute of Space Physics return to Venus on Indian space mission
2020-02-21: Twisted radio beams in space reveal unique properties of black holes
2020-02-19: Swedish Institute of Space Physics one step closer to the edge of the Solar System
2019-11-22: Magnetic storms – a window to the past
2019-02-27: Cluster spacecraft reveals new insights into the inner workings of the Earth's natural particle accelerator
2019-02-27: Swedish space pioneer Bengt Hultqvist has passed away
2019-01-03: Swedish instrument has landed on the Moon
2018-12-07: Water plumes on Europa: tasting an extraterrestrial ocean
2018-11-15: Multi-satellite space mission encounters magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail
2017-12-07: Mars' atmosphere well protected from the solar wind
2004-10-19: Kiruna Goes to the Moon
2004-10-05: Outstanding Swedish research results from the Cluster satellites in the Earth's magnetosphere
2004-09-22: Erosion of the Martian atmosphere by the solar wind – article in Science
2004-03-16: Swedish ASPERA-3 on board Mars Express is healthy and beginning to produce its first exciting scientific results

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