NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical ...

When a young star forms, a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk forms around it. Together, the star and the disk ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

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

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Sharks can navigate via Earth's magnetic field, study confirms for the first time. Scientists have long suspected the fish can travel by sensing the magnetic field, but no one knew how—until now.

What Will Happen When the Earth’s Magnetic Field Begins to Reverse? On the University of Maryland campus, a giant whirligig tries to predict the planet’s next big flip. Haley Edwards.

As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets. Skip to main content.

The erupting magnetar observed by IXPE is known as 1E 1841-045, a neutron star located around 28,000 light-years from Earth in the supernova wreckage known as Kes 73, which shocked astronomers when it ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...