Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...
New research shows Uranus’ fierce radiation belts were a short-lived blast from a solar storm, reshaping what Voyager 2 ...
A UC Irvine team uncovered a never-before-seen quantum phase formed when electrons and holes pair up and spin in unison, ...
New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...
In collaboration with scientists in Germany, EPFL researchers have demonstrated that the spiral geometry of tiny, twisted ...
analysis in the Nov. 4 issue of Physical Review Letters. Magnetic reconnection should occur wherever magnetic fields clash. As the fields try to bend around one another, the field lines break and ...
Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A team of scientists led by University of Maryland physics professor James Drake appear to have solved a key remaining mystery about how the interaction of magnetic fields produce ...
They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...