Webb Captures Io’s and Europa’s Auroral Footprints in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope conducted a clockwise scan around the entire limb of Jupiter, chasing aurora…
Ganymede’s Auroral Patches Reveal Shared Physics with Earth’s Aurorae
Scientsts from the United States, Europe and China have used the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Scientists create first-ever 3D map of Uranus’ upper atmosphere
A research team has successfully created the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere. This reveals how the…
Enceladus Plays Bigger Role in Shaping Saturn’s Space Environment than Previously Thought
A new analysis of data from four instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated the crucial role that…
Enormous Pair of Deep-Earth Hot ‘Blobs’ Shape Earth’s Magnetic Field, Scientists Say
For all we’ve learned about places far away in outer space, we may have barely scratched the surface…
Two Enormous Blobs of Superheated Material Help Shape Earth’s Magnetic Field
Two immense, ultrahot rock structures located at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 2,900 km beneath Africa and…
Magnetic Avalanches Ignite Solar Flares, New Solar Orbiter Observations Reveal
New high-resolution observations by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission show that solar flares are driven by cascading magnetic reconnection…
“No Longer a Futuristic Concept”: Scientists Build Real-World Magnetic Cloaking Device Capable of Shielding Complex Shapes
A new magnetic cloaking device developed by University of Leicester engineers can render sensitive electronic components invisible to…
New Research Challenges Classification of Uranus and Neptune as Ice Giants
The composition of Uranus and Neptune might be less icy than previously thought, according to a new study…
Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from radiation, but it can move, and the magnetic poles can even flip
The Earth’s magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and geomagnetic activity that…
Fullerenes offer a simpler path to creating high-sensitivity MRI targets
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is invaluable in the medical world. But despite all the good it does, there…
Oldest biological GPS? Magnetic fossils of mystery sea creature found
New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an…