Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this ...

<p>Simulation of a possible quadrupole magnetic field configuration for a pulsar with hot spots in only the southern hemisphere. <p>View animated GIF: <a target ...

Scientists have long struggled to understand how common planets form. A new supercomputer simulation shows that the missing ingredient may be magnetism. We like to think of ourselves as unique. That ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

These 3D renderings of a direct-horizon collapsar with an initially weak magnetic field illustrate the system’s evolution. Early in the collapse, accretion disk winds unbind much of the stellar ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over a century. An international team of researchers analyzed data collected by the European Space ...