Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those ...

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.

The NASA Transient Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACERS) mission was launched on July 23, aiming to study the interaction between solar wind and Earth's magnetic field using two satellites. One ...

Letters to the editors for the May 2025 issue of Scientific American ...

Scientists in Korea have engineered magnetic nanohelices that can control electron spin with extraordinary precision at room ...

In the late 1980s, scientists realized they could understand the interior properties of the sun by observing the sound waves ...

Contact systems physically interact with debris through means such as nets or harpoons and slow it down to a safe level for ...

Last night the northern lights were more in the northwest sky. If the northern lights do occur again tonight, it would be ...

The Earth’s magnetic field briefly collapsed, leaving life on Earth exposed to increased solar and cosmic radiation. This ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

Compasses were the trusted companions of sailors, explorers, and travelers for centuries, offering a simple way to find north ...

A rare spin effect once limited to large crystals is now seen in ultrathin magnetic films, pointing to new ways of building faster, more stable, and miniaturized spin-based devices.