The South Atlantic Anomaly, a huge weak spot in the geomagnetic field off South America, has expanded and sprouted a lobe in ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has unexpectedly switched directions. This dramatic reversal challenges theories of black ...

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory might seem like a bunch of humble buildings in the middle of nowhere. Yet, there a team of ...

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

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

A cadence sensor is a compact cycling device that measures pedaling rate in RPMs to provide real-time feedback.

New event-horizon-telescope (EHT) images of M87* reveal unexpected flips in polarized light between 2017 and 2021, showing that magnetic fields near the black hole are dynamic and evolving. For the ...

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...

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