A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

The commercial astronauts onboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission are flying closer to Earth’s poles than anyone has before, offering ...

That is, unless you’ve got one of these nifty magnetic field visualizers developed ... time and produce an approximation of what the field lines would look like on its electronic paper display.

S cientists have found that it’s possible to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field ...

and birds—are able to orient themselves relative to the Earth’s magnetic field. Among mammals, naked mole rats, deer, and even dogs also seem to have this gift. Researchers have recently shown that ...

the angle at which magnetic field lines intersect the Earth. The turtles use these two pieces of information, which vary at every point on the planet's surface, as navigational markers that help ...

Bar magnets and horseshoe magnets are two of the most common shapes of magnet. The magnetic field is shown by lines with arrows that point from north to south. You can tell how old some coins are ...

Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...