Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...

Apollo moon rocks show the Moon had short bursts of strong magnetism, not a long lasting magnetic field, changing how we ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

For the first time, researchers measured the magnetic pull inside a single bacterium, turning a biological mystery into hard numbers.

AMES, Iowa – A tiny, solid sample of a drug, complete with active and inactive ingredients, spun at 50,000 revolutions per ...

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Thursday, March. 5, through Friday, March 6, with the aurora borealis possible from northern U.S. states and Canada.

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Monday, Feb. 23, through Tuesday, Feb. 24, with the aurora borealis ...

Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...

An international team of scientists, led by a PhD researcher from Northumbria University, has made groundbreaking discoveries ...

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth's magnetic ...

The original story “ Physicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistance ” is published in The ...