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

The sun is governed by a strict rhythm. The magnetic activity of the sun displays a cyclic variation, reaching a maximum ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

From a world shaped like a giant donut to a planet with the sharp edges of a perfect cube, changing the shape of Earth would ...

Mars makes for great mythology, but the physics is stubborn: even after extreme disasters on Earth, our home world remains ...

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

Recent research has revealed a surprising discovery about Earth’s magnetosphere that challenges long-standing theories, ...

A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over a century. An international team of researchers analyzed data collected by the European Space ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of the magnetic field stretching from South America to western Africa. Wherever the ...

Earth’s Magnetic Field. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 A weak zone in Earth’s magnetic field, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, has expanded at an alarming rate over ...

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years. A weak region in Earth's magnetic field has ...

Protective force fields exist and you’re already living inside one. About 1,800 miles beneath the ground you’ll reach the border of Earth’s outer core, a subterranean ocean of liquid iron and nickel 1 ...