For the first time, scientists have spotted radio waves from an exoplanet. Astronomer Yvette Cendes knows what you’re thinking: “When people see ‘radio signal from an exoplanet,’ they think aliens,” ...

In materials chemistry, identifying common parameters that can organize magnetic ground states across complex intermetallic compounds remains a central challenge. Researchers have long used chemically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's magnetosphere formed by the interaction between the planet's geomagnetic field and solar winds. (NASA's Scientific ...

The moon no longer has a global magnetic field, but lunar rocks and soils still contain records of ancient magnetism. Studying the magnetic minerals in these samples can help scientists understand how ...

Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field — not intelligent life. ...

A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. Researchers traced much of the effect to ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have shown that magnetic order can survive weak quantum fluctuations in disordered magnets that lack an energy gap. The work ...

Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it's less than 1 percent as old as our solar system. It is called Beta Pictoris, and—as far as astronomers have ...

An unusual rock buried on the far side of the moon is providing fresh clues for a longstanding scientific puzzle: the ancient lunar magnetic field. The characteristics of the large rock body, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as there's been life on Earth it's been shielded by our planet's magnetic field. And yet, we still don't know a lot ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Radio waves ...