Magnetic field

In 2023, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration detected gravitational waves from the largest black hole merger ever recorded, in…

Light’s magnetic field influences matter, according to new findings by Israeli researchers, challenging long-held assumptions that light only…

A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to…

In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…

A representation of the South Atlantic Anomaly in 2025 (Image source: Finlay, C.C. et al., 2025; cropped) Using…

The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is…

Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched…

Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…

What do solar flares, lab-grown plasma, and a nebula 25,000 light-years away have in common? A cosmic twist,…

Kevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in…

Earth wears a magnetic cloak called the magnetosphere, which shields us from the constant stream of charged particles…

“No One Has Considered These Systems the Way We Did”: The Magnetic Power that Created ‘Impossible’ Black Holes