The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.

Kiwi startup OpenStar's bold move to use levitating dipole reactor for fusion achieved a key milestone with its first plasma.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, designed to explore Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa, has reached an important milestone by deploying its magnetometer boom. This instrument will help scientists ...

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, feels like science fiction come to life¹. Using powerful electromagnetic fields, these ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...

They've found that Voyager 2's flyby was a freak event: The spacecraft happened to pass by Uranus during an "extreme" solar storm, effectively ruining any chance Voyager 2 had at capturing an accurate ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...