A long-standing mystery about the Sun’s powerful solar flares has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on how these massive energy bursts form, thanks to new ...

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 ...

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

made the very first direct observations of a crucial hookup between the magnetic fields of the sun and the Earth. Called reconnection, this linkage is an important aspect of the transformation ...

Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles ... they generate massive clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields that may compress, merge ...

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

Spectacular displays of the Northern Lights have been seen over recent nights with the potential for more to come.

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

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 ...

Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The Sun periodically ... of charged particles and magnetic fields that may compress, merge or reconnect with each other during the ...