Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. The strength of the magnetic ...

In its second phase, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission -- MMS -- is watching magnetic reconnection in action behind Earth, as shown here by the tangled blue and red magnetic field lines.

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...