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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Sun constantly emits streams of charged particles, known as the solar wind, from its outer atmosphere, the corona. These particles travel throughout the Solar System and interact with Earth's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...