Micro-Scale Current Sheets Unleash Macro-Scale Space Weather NRL scientists discover new physics missing from existing models of magnetic reconnection. While movies show Earth as existing…
The Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with…
The Sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been pretty sleepy,…
Electrically charged particles from the sun strike moons and planets with great force. The consequences of these impacts can now be explained by scientists from…
New research confirms some of our ideas about where cosmic X-rays come from and reveals an entire group of X-rays that don’t come from any…
Using newly processed observations, astronomers spot tell-tale signs that the slow solar wind passing Earth originated from a magnetic phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. From…
A newly published study uses a new model to demonstrate ion-cyclotron resonant heating in solar wind; representing a major advance in the understanding of how…
Powerful magnetic disturbances in Sol’s corona have hurled a large burst of charged particles into space on March 4th. The solar storm erupted from the…
Researchers at MIT used new data from computer simulations to prove their initially proposed theory explaining the large-scale acceleration of electrons in Earth’s magnetotail. The…
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén…
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) studies the outer boundaries of the solar system and measures samples of particles from where the solar wind collides with…
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…
