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

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

According to the team's computer models, polar vortices form at around 55 degrees latitude and move poleward. The magnetic ...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

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

Migratory birds are known for their ability to traverse thousands of kilometers to reach their breeding or wintering grounds.

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

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

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

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

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

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