Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

This video explains what magnets are and how magnetic fields are generated through the alignment of atomic structures.

This video explores the nature of magnets and how they create invisible magnetic forces. It explains the origin of magnetism, ...

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In recent years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has given us a close-up look at the sun. Among the probe's revelations was the ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...

Experience the magical Northern Lights, a stunning natural light show caused by solar wind and ion collisions.

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...