In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Clocking in 42.02 Tesla, this magnet will hopefully power future discoveries in the field of material science.

Current observations of the sun are limited to a face-on view, obscuring what can be seen transpiring at the poles — but ...

Rice University researchers found that localized electrons drive magnetism in iron-tin thin films, reshaping theories on ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency ...

Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) team in South Korea has developed an innovative magnetic composite ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...

But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions — an intense solar wind event — ...