For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at ...

Earth’s magnetic field is often described as a steady shield, but the geological record tells a more restless story. Polarity ...

Earth’s magnetic field is easy to forget. It doesn’t make noise, it doesn’t flash, and it doesn’t ask for attention. Yet it ...

Researchers have created DNA-like magnetic nanostructures that form strong inter-helix magnetic bonds. These produce topological textures in the magnetic field, opening the door to the next generation ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...

Earth’s magnetic field can linger in a weakened, unstable state for tens of thousands of years before fully flipping.

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Two enormous and enigmatic masses of hot rock near the planet's core may play a crucial role in generating the Earth's ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed ...