An Ansell's mole rat in Zoo Leipzig. (Headster/Wikimedia/CC BY 4.0) The amazing animal known as Ansell's mole rat (Fukomys ...

New computer simulations reveal an unexpected interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. Credit: Stock.

Generated by a vast dynamo-like churn of molten iron in the Earth’s core, the magnetic field that surrounds the planet protects its surface and everything on it from space radiation as well as ...

The Earth's magnetic field is a giant bar magnet connecting the North and South Poles.In school, it is often explained using ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

Magnetic tension and boundary geometry help determine where solar wind-driven waves grow around Earth’s magnetosphere.

Two Eocene magnetic reversals lasted about 18,000 and 70,000 years, according to a detailed North Atlantic sediment record.

The Sun’s seemingly peaceful regions are hiding a surprisingly complex magnetic world. Using a balloon-borne telescope high above Earth, scientists discovered delicate, thread-like magnetic structures ...

To build faster and more energy-efficient computers, researchers need to understand nanoscale magnetic materials. But looking ...

When we look out into space, all of the astrophysical objects that we see are embedded in magnetic fields. This is true not only in the neighborhood of stars and planets, but also in the deep space ...

I am building a drone that flies autonomously inside sewer pipes where GPS cannot reach.Last time, I investigated the actual ...