M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

Observations of a supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years away from Earth have revealed something completely unexpected: Its magnetic field has flipped. The black hole, dubbed M87* ...

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

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Ancient bricks may be key to understanding Earth’s variable magnetic fields. Scientists examined the iron oxide levels of 3,000-year-old bricks to understand the level of magnetism the bricks were ...

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

As the solar system, the earth is also made of countless wonders. One of them is the feat of variation in its magnetic field. Earth is surrounded by an immense magnetic field, called the magnetosphere ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is vital for life – without it, the Sun’s radiation would sterilize the planet. But a new study suggests we wouldn’t be here at all if that magnetic field hadn’t almost ...