Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic “flip” hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible ...

Magnetic fields are all around us. We can’t really feel or see them ourselves, per se, but we can map them with the right ...

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Scientists have shown that changing magnetic fields in precise ways can create exotic quantum matter that does not normally ...

Research team including NOIRLab astronomer identify highly unusual star that may evolve into a magnetar — the most magnetic object in the known Universe “For the first time, a strong magnetic field ...

Solar flares strong enough to knock out satellites and buckle power grids are, by definition, rare. That rarity is exactly the problem for the machine-learning models tasked with predicting them: they ...

A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth today. A new study, led by the University ...

By comparison, the magnetic north pole is the northernmost convergence point in Earth’s magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere. Generated by the churning molten metals in Earth’s core, the ...

An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded iron formation that is found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Credit: Claire Nichols. A new study, led by the University of Oxford ...