"Clearly the sun is not a good standard star for the discussion of stellar activity," Böhm-Vitense wrote. But she wondered if the sun's alienation among its brethren might hint at a bigger mystery: ...

An international team of physicists led by Denis Maryenko of Japan’s RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science has now ...

Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

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 ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation. It works like this.

We’re all familiar with the force that holds a fridge magnet in place or points a compass needle in the right direction. It’s commonly known science and 100 per cent understood, right?  That’s mostly ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

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A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms.