To their surprise, when the model was allowed to run under these conditions, a tachocline emerged on its own. Even more revealing, the simulations showed that the magnetic fields produced in the ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those ...

Electrons in a magnetic field can display striking behaviors, from the formation of discrete energy levels to the quantum ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...

We are in the midst of a new era in space exploration, one in which everyone from NASA to Elon Musk's SpaceX have expressed interest in the idea of sending humans to Mars and even establishing ...

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 ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

The Earth’s magnetic field does more than just cause auroral light shows. Could it play a role in extinctions, too? After studying the reversal of Earth’s magnetic pole known to have occurred 42,000 ...

See you on the flip side. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A reversal in Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged the ...