It's been a puzzle for 60 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The secret to what drives powerful solar flares is literally in ...

ESA’s Cluster mission has, for the first time, observed the extent of the region that triggers magnetic reconnection, and it is much larger than previously thought. This gives future space missions a ...

A fleet of NASA and European Space Agency space-weather probes recently observed an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind between the sun and Earth. The jet, at least 200 ...

For the first time, scientists believe they have captured direct evidence of the mechanisms that trigger a solar flare. These massive explosions, generated by the Sun, release staggering amounts of ...

A new magnetohydrodynamic simulation demonstrates the merging of wound magnetic structures, create tiny, high-speed plasma ...

The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind interacts with the magnetic fields and atmospheres of several of our solar ...

For the new concept thruster, the magnetic fields do the accelerating. So far, computer simulations by PPPL computers and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence ...

HANOVER, N.H. – April 28, 2022 – When magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, they create explosions that can release massive amounts of energy. On the sun, the merging of opposing field ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Prof. WANG Rongsheng and Prof. LU Quanming, used data from the ...

Researchers have recently discovered a breakthrough in magnetic reconnection that could ultimately help predict space weather. A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of ...