Researchers at the University of Oxford and MIT have discovered a record of the Earth's magnetic field dating back 3.7 ...
The new work offers a salve against worry. Their work suggests Earth has sustained a magnetic field since at least 3.7 ...
Thanks to new sophisticated techniques and state-of-the-art facilities, astronomy has entered a new era in which the depth of ...
Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare that erupted from an extremely magnetic dead star, or magnetar, ...
After a decade of silence, one of the most powerful magnets in the universe suddenly burst back to life in late 2018. The ...
While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the ...
The hunt for extraterrestrial life is only one reason to wonder about Earth's magnetic field.Not every planet has a ...
Some stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. Scientists may now know why.
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 ...
An incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside the Milky Way, which could ...
Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently ...