ESA’s Solar Orbiter captures the first detailed look at the Sun’s poles, revealing fast-moving plasma and magnetic flows.

Long before life thrived in Earth’s oceans, the planet’s magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks of Morocco, scientists have recovered one of the clearest records of that ...

Magnetic deposits laid down during the Ediacaran Period, 630 million years ago to 541 million years ago, are not inexplicable ...

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a long-standing mystery: why is the magnetic record from this time showing wild and ...

NASA is set to launch twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold, on November 9 aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to study Mars' magnetosphere and atmospheric loss.

Magnetic microrobots carry medicine through blood and release it only where needed, while being tracked inside the body using ...

A giant dent in Earth's magnetic field is continuing to expand, according to the latest data from a trio of satellites monitoring our world. It's called the South Atlantic Anomaly, stretching across ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

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Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...

A global team observed a massive plasma burst from EK Draconis, showing how early solar storms may have shaped young planets.