There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

Solar radio bursts are intrinsically linked to the motion of their emitting source through the coronal and heliospheric ...

Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the magnetic imprint remains. What's long baffled scientists, though, is why this ...

(Nanowerk News) MIT physicists have created a new ultrathin, two-dimensional material with unusual magnetic properties that initially surprised the researchers before they went on to solve the ...

Jupiter and Saturn, these two giant and gaseous planets, are similar in size but present a striking contrast: their moon ...

The interaction between the internal rotation and magnetic fields retards or speeds up the spin rate.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most peculiar things about Uranus and Neptune is their magnetic fields. Each of these planets has a hot mess of a ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” inside a crystal’s atomic structure. The team discovered a rare system where ...

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First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

Computer simulation of a one-sided magnetic field on early Mars based on data from a study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. The study could explain the unusual magnetic imprint ...