Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

On a cool October evening, long after most birds have roosted, a living cloud rises from the wheat fields of southeastern ...