In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

The rapid loss of the magnetic field over North America is still unexplained but is linked to the shift of geomagnetic poles ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) team in South Korea has developed an innovative magnetic composite ...

Chinese scientists find the natural barrier over the eastern hemisphere is strengthening, possibly because of a shift in the ...

The researchers verified that a LFMF promoted the inward absorption of iron ions and inhibited iron ion excretion, resulting ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions — an intense solar wind event — ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...