A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

Nuclear fusion reactors are highly powerful technologies that can generate energy by fusing (i.e., joining) two light atomic ...

Deciphering the universe’s secrets is partly done through observation, but just as important are solid models of the forces ...

A Montana Tech researcherwill receive a $199,927 Engineering Research Initiative (ERI) grant from the National Science ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Using a magnetic field, the researchers changed the ... The team called their creation a "metabot"—a metamaterial that can shift its shape and move. "The electromagnetic fields carry power ...

The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins of electrons. They wobble like a top when in a magnetic ...

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

Despite a severe geomagnetic storm pushing the aurora closer to the equator, forecasters do not believe we will be able to ...

the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution. This period, called the ...