A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe's rarest elements: a giant flare ...

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

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

The most advanced instrument on the most powerful solar telescope ever built delivered first-light images with incredible ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

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

Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and ...

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