Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some ...
While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the ...
The new work offers a salve against worry. Their work suggests Earth has sustained a magnetic field since at least 3.7 ...
Researchers at the University of Oxford and MIT have discovered a record of the Earth's magnetic field dating back 3.7 ...
Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare that erupted from an extremely magnetic dead star, or magnetar, ...
Thanks to new sophisticated techniques and state-of-the-art facilities, astronomy has entered a new era in which the depth of ...
Some stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. Scientists may now know why.
The snapping and untwisting of the tangled magnetic field released enormous amounts of energy as ... with magnetic fields ...
The hunt for extraterrestrial life is only one reason to wonder about Earth's magnetic field.Not every planet has a ...
Magnetic cilia—artificial hairs whose movement is powered by embedded magnetic particles—have been around for a while, and ...
The world's most powerful MRI was recently unveiled in France. It delivers more than three times the magnetic imaging power ...
Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently ...