New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — containing the equivalent magnetic energy of a human brain.

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 ...

Breakthrough in understanding cosmic dust alignment with galaxy's magnetic field using three different mechanisms in star-forming cloud.

This discovery reveals that cosmic dust grains aren’t passive; they’re reactive performers on a magnetic stage. Depending on ...

Weak magnetic fields once exposed humans to radiation. People adapted with shelter, clothing, and mineral protection. Our ...

Scientists have long believed that just like dust particles dancing in a ray of light, tiny cosmic particles floating between stars in the Milky Way act as storytellers of the universe. Now a team ...

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons ...

The researchers traced the subtle influence of "primordial magnetic fields" on the cosmic web, the vast, filamentary ...