NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led by the University of Iowa (UI) with substantial contributions from Southwest ...

Scientists in a rare discovery have found “smiling electrons” inside Earth’s protective magnetic field. According to a new research study led by Jason Shuster, a UNH research assistant professor of ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind ...

Earth's magnetosphere protects our planet from being constantly bombarded by solar wind that can disrupt satellites, GPS and other technology. To better understand the phenomenon, NASA plans to place ...

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is ...

There is a constant outward flow of charged particles from the Sun. This flow, known as the solar wind, moves across space ...

The illustration shows magnetic field lines around the Earth reconnecting in the magnetotail, usually one of the first signs of a substorm. An internally funded Southwest Research Institute project is ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in space and astrophysical plasmas through which plasmas of different origin are able to mix and become accelerated into energetic jets, and which allows ...

This image depicts the X-ray emission intensity distribution (keyed in colors) calculated by the proposed model and Earth’s magnetic field (lines). The sphere in the center of the figure represents ...

For the first time, scientists have detected a magnetic switchback near Earth, unveiling a phenomenon that has only been observed closer to the Sun. This groundbreaking discovery opens a new chapter ...