"There’s something special happening in this region that is causing the field to weaken in a more intense way." ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...

HANOVER, N.H. – April 28, 2022 – 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 ...

Physicists have found a way to circumvent a 178-year old theory which means they can effectively cancel magnetic fields at a distance. They are the first to be able to do so in a way which has ...

More than 50 years ago, NASA landed humans on the Moon — and we brought a piece of it back with us to Earth. That 22 kilograms of rock and dust collected by the Apollo astronauts transformed our ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s magnetosphere is charged opposite to what was once believed. The area of space influenced by Earth’s magnetic field is called the magnetosphere. Within this ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Ancient sea creatures may have used magnetic particles to navigate. 3D scans reveal how these magnetofossils sensed Earth’s ...