The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic ... the poles of a magnet in real-time and produce an approximation of what the field lines would look ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the ...

The needle of a compass is a small magnet that can turn. It turns around until its own magnetic field lines up with the Earth’s magnetic field. This means it always points North. 1. Which end of ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could pose problems for long-distance space travel ...

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

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

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

How her kind, the largest living reptiles, had been around for 120 ... can detect not only the field's intensity but its inclination, the angle at which magnetic field lines intersect the Earth.

but it's still close enough to the planet that the magnetic field is neat and orderly, more like a bar magnet. Farther out in the tail, the lines of Earth's magnetic field have been stretched and ...