With aircraft increasingly targeted by GPS jammers, the search for new ways to navigate is hotting up.

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

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

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

New research published by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics offers a compelling explanation for the strange ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

A new study is changing the way scientists think about how young stars and planets form. Led by Professor Paolo Padoan from ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Earth’s moving interior generates our planet’s magnetic field, an invisible shield that helps protect us and our atmosphere from harmful energy coming from space. This magnetic field has a ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...