Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

A 1912 experiment found that if an electromagnet spins on its long axis, its magnetic field does not rotate along with it. And while the Earth spins, its rotational axis doesn’t quite line up ...

After the energy is released, the magnetic-field lines reconnect, ... T. N. Woods et al, 'Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): ...

The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life as we know it. But it’s something we can never see – or hear, until now. In a recent study released on Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency ...

To map the galaxy’s magnetic field lines, Dr. Chuss and his colleagues flew at 45,000 feet aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, a 747 outfitted for astronomy.