Researchers have found that magnetic fields buried deep inside stars can survive their entire lifetimes and later reappear on ...

Astrophysics faces a paradox: several independent measurements of the speed at which the cosmos is growing do not agree. This ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

Scientists in the US have uncovered that hematite features a rare and emerging form ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of long-dead stellar remnants (white dwarfs) with recent evidence of magnetism ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

In the beginning, there was no magnetism. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe contained an awesomely hot cloud of electrically charged protons, electrons, helium and lithium nuclei. Each ...

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...