Any aurora chasers in Alaska likely did a double take this week when they witnessed some human-made additions to the dazzling ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

A potential deal giving America some rights to rare earths that may be buried in Ukraine has been part of negotiations over ...

According to Dr. Schmoll, the Earth's magnetic field has a north and south pole, just like any magnet. The sun does as well.

The magnetic north pole is not in the same location as the geographic north pole, which is located 1,300 miles away.

By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole. The lines of Earth’s magnetic field point from one pole to the other. When the solar wind approaches Earth ...

As a result, the efficiency of dual-pole IMs available in the market is less than their single-pole counterpart. Since the efficiency of permanent magnet synchronous motors is generally higher than ...

He remembers closing his eyes and spinning a globe, tracing the lines of longitude from pole to pole until the blue orb stopped rotating on its axis. His fingertip pointed to some faraway place.

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...