For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts ...

New observations are helping scientists peer beneath the Sun’s surface, revealing where its magnetic activity may truly begin ...

The powerful magnetic field belonging to the sun is generated far beneath the visible surface.

Scientists have detected mysterious waves deep inside the Sun, uncovering hidden magnetic forces that drive solar activity.

Researchers studying a distant spiral galaxy have found that large-scale, ordered magnetic fields existed far earlier in ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, which lasted from about 630 to 540 million years ago, has long puzzled scientists studying the ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

Thanks to new calculations by a Dartmouth geochemist, scientists are now looking at the earth’s climate history in a new light. Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, ...

A long time ago, tiny crystals formed in seafloor mud and held onto secrets that would puzzle scientists for decades. These crystals were first spotted in 2008. They looked similar to the magnetic ...

(Nanowerk News) Physicists from the University of Augsburg succeeded to distinguish chiral orders with similar magnetization but opposite sense of rotation through electrical measurements at low ...