The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic field looks like. But as the gelatinous orbs in our skull can perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

Instead, magnetic north is the changing location where the planet’s magnetic field lines converge. This field is generated by the churning of the planet’s outer core, a layer of molten iron ...

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions ... For comparison, a typical refrigerator magnet has a magnetic field of about 1,000,000 milligauss. ...