After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...

In a dramatic leap for astrophysics, Chinese researchers have recreated a key cosmic process in the lab: the acceleration of ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission has taken its first measurements.

CTRL, a quantum technology company with offices in Sydney, Australia, have demonstrated just such a technology. Their ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

What if Earth’s magnetic field disappeared tomorrow? Explore the catastrophic effects on life, technology, and the planet’s atmosphere, including increased radiation, satellite failures ...

These spectacular lights resemble those seen on Earth, where they're generated when energetic particles interact with our planet's magnetic field ... larger than Earth's, meaning this heated ...

internal magnetic structures like compass needles to navigate along Earth’s magnetic field. What makes them even more unusual is how they live: MMB form stable, coordinated clusters of cells that some ...