A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection ...
Understanding why the Sun’s uppermost atmospheric layer—referred to as a corona—is millions of degrees hotter than lower atmospheric levels has been a challenge for scientists for decades. There’s ...
An SwRI-led study identified particles accelerated to extremely high energies by magnetic reconnection near the Sun. As NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (trajectory shown in green) crossed the heliospheric ...
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 ...
Physicists have now provided the first major results of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, including an unprecedented look at the interaction between the magnetic fields of Earth and the ...
Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful ...
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...
Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth’s magnetic field. Thanks to ESA’s Cluster satellites they detected an electric field thought to be a key element in ...
Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda is in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK. Read the paper: Kinetic turbulence drives ...