NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale is delivering promising early results on a process called magnetic reconnection – a kind of magnetic explosion that’s related to everything from the northern lights to ...

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black ...

On Feb. 9, 2017, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, known as MMS, began a three-month long journey into a new orbit. MMS flies in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth and the new orbit will ...

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) has successfully made it to space aboard an Atlas V rocket. The mission, made up of four identical spacecraft, will spend two years studying the boundary ...