A long-standing mystery about the Sun’s powerful solar flares has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed a ...

Spring equinox may be the best time to see the aurora with a peak in solar activity combining with a special effect.

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...

The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

NASA's MMS mission has redefined magnetic reconnection studies Over 1,500 scientific papers have been published using MMS ...

Indian scientists report flareless coronal mass ejection observations from the Sun using VELC instrument on Aditya-L1 mission ...

The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles ... they generate massive clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields that may compress, merge or reconnect with each other during the collision.

“A magnetic reconnection event is like a spark of static ... Morris said. When the sun releases solar storms, scientists worry because such activity can potentially affect GPS, communications ...