In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

The rapid loss of the magnetic field over North America is still unexplained but is linked to the shift of geomagnetic poles ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...

Chinese scientists find the natural barrier over the eastern hemisphere is strengthening, possibly because of a shift in the ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) team in South Korea has developed an innovative magnetic composite ...

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

The researchers verified that a LFMF promoted the inward absorption of iron ions and inhibited iron ion excretion, resulting ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...