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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 ...

Astronomers have detected radio signals directly from a planet beyond our solar system for the first time. The finding could open a new way to study exoplanets and their magnetic fields. The signals ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range from small, rocky worlds to enormous orbs of gas like our own Jupiter or Saturn. Some, ...

Learn about the first-ever radio signal detected from an exoplanet, a discovery that may have important implications for understanding magnetic fields. For the first time ever, a radio emission from a ...