Many systems in nature—and in society—can suddenly change their properties: Water freezes at normal pressure at 32°F, a power ...

Recently, the Aditya-L1 mission captured a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower solar atmosphere. What is a solar flare? In ...

Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

The scientific community reveals that an unexplained magnetic disturbance continues to expand. South Atlantic Anomaly hosts high radiation levels because Earth’s largest inner Van Allen radiation belt ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, the Moon's passage through Earth's magnetic field, or "geotail," does not lead to lower plasma densities. Listen to Story Scientists from the Space Physics Laboratory ...

Like a bar magnet, the Sun also has a magnetic field with north and south poles. The magnetic field exists due to the ... The bursts are significant as they can have an impact on Earth — they can ...

Magnetite, like the name implies, is magnetic. Other magnetic minerals include pyrrhotite and ilmenite. Lodestone is a name given to magnetite that has polarity. Really, all magnetite has polarity ...

Last May, as the strongest solar storm in decades swept through the Earth’s upper atmosphere ... year of frequent and intense auroras across Europe as the Sun’s magnetic poles flip – part of an ...

Fresh satellite data shows that sea ice at both the North and South Poles shrank to a combined extent of about ... Together, these conditions seem to be undoing some of the natural insulation that ...

These interactions can amplify the impact of the CMEs on Earth's magnetic field, sometimes creating geomagnetic storms. Nearly one-third of CMEs interact with other CMEs or the solar wind ...