Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary science’s greatest mysteries: why the near and far sides are so different.

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." Magnetars are surrounded by the most powerful magnetic fields in the known universe, ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a stable atmosphere, the right chemistry, and possibly even things like plate ...

TRACERS will watch magnetic field lines snapping and reconnecting as solar storms overwhelm them. NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (July 23 ...

Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...