Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

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

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.

Scientists in China claimed that the magnetic shield over North America is weakening rapidly. The geomagnetic field, a kind ...

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

Moreover, the magnetic field's intensity in the southern hemisphere was ten times weaker than in the north. This kind of ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

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

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