The primary target of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission is the electron-scale diffusion layer around reconnection sites. Here we study where these regions are found in full three-dimensional ...

Scientists made these observations using data from the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, which relies on three identical ...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (Ph.D. '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the ...

We need to proactively find structures like these Earth-bound flux ropes and predict what they will look like at Earth to ...

You’ve probably heard of the Higgs boson. This elusive particle was predicted to exist long ago and helped explain why the universe works the way it does, but it took decades for us to detect. Well, ...

Astronomers found a highly unusual star that has the most powerful magnetic field ever found in a massive star -- and that may become one of the most magnetic objects in the Universe: a variant of a ...

Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations to forecast how these destructive storms form and where they might travel, ...