Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a ...

A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

much the same way iron filings can reveal the magnetic field around a magnet. The team thinks that the measured ...

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For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

Welcome to the new series from the Jewish Children's Museum in conjunction with COLlive: “History’s Heroes,” where we learn about our favorite Jewish Heroes and craft, paint, or experiment, along the ...

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

That's higher than the orbit where you'll find geostationary satellites, but it's still close enough to the planet that the magnetic field is neat and orderly, more like a bar magnet. Farther out ...