Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, and researchers now think they understand why. By analyzing years of data ...

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, however, is protected by its magnetic field, which creates a protective ...

Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals friction can arise without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics that challenge a centuries-old physics law.

As black holes feed, they pull material into a disk around them. The material orbiting in this disk gets heated to extreme temperatures, and so it becomes a plasma — a state of matter in which some of ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

Rhys Parry is a research fellow in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. I didn’t set out to build a career on other people’s data.

Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House. By Eric Niiler Kate Marvel, a widely known ...

Each year, Space Science Week brings together leaders across the space science disciplines to explore the latest developments and discuss the future of the field from a variety of perspectives, from ...