Barreling through the universe with incredible power and speed, galactic cosmic rays are a major source of radiation in space ...

Earth's magnetic field acts as a vital shield against radiation arriving from space, but it is not constant. A new ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science Advances, ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic ...

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It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...

A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by ...