On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth's magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

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 ...

Reconnection occurs when the magnetic field lines in plasma -- the collection of atoms and charged electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, that make up 99 percent of the visible universe -- converge and ...

Magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon wherein oppositely directed magnetic field lines in plasma can break apart and reconnect, is still very poorly understood. This is despite the fact that it is ...

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 ...

The space environment around Earth is characterized by interactions between Earth's magnetic field and nearby plasma. A key physical process in these interactions is magnetic reconnection, in which ...