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 lines causes solar flares and ...

In work that promises new insights into the cosmos and fusion-energy production alike, physicists have reported they have made the first three-dimensional laboratory measurements of magnetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth's magnetic field called ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...

Challenging process that occurs throughout the universe now better understood Scientists are closer than ever to unraveling a process called magnetic reconnection that triggers explosive phenomena ...

A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analyzing data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, ...

Using measurements of the four ESA’s Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent ‘plasma’ around ...

In a first, scientists have directly observed magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process in nature that may be key to learning more about the cosmos and help protect future deep space missions as we ...

Making connections: illustration of gamma-ray flickers being created by magnetic reconnection in a turbulent region in the jet of the blazar 3C 279. (Courtesy: Amit Shukla/Indian Institute of ...

New research describes striking similarity of laboratory research findings with observations of the four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission that studies magnetic reconnection in space. As on ...