A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Earth’s magnetic field can linger in a weakened, unstable state for tens of thousands of years before fully flipping.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant Colorful Anomaly ABove Earth NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

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 ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...