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 ...

NASA proclaimed 2024 to be “Heliophysics Big Year,” and with good reason. Heliophysics is the study of the sun, and 2024 gave ...

The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as New York and Idaho tonight due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of ...

During this period, the sun's magnetic poles flip, and space weather events like geomagnetic storms and solar flares occur more frequently. Scientists predict that the solar maximum will continue ...

The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

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 ...