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

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 ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

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 ...

For comparison, a typical refrigerator magnet has a magnetic field of about 1,000,000 milligauss. For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star ...