Scientists have advanced in their quest to create an accurate model of the sun's inner workings, which could pave the way to a better understanding of our solar system. Accurate solar models might ...

Magnetic fields provide key information in reconstructing the evolutionary history of planetary bodies. Planets such as Earth and the gas giants have magnetic fields produced by self-sustaining ...

The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a novel ...

A new simulation based on the von-Kármán-Sodium (VKS) dynamo experiment takes a closer look at how the liquid vortex created by the device generates a magnetic field. Researchers investigated the ...

In the 400th year since Galileo pointed his first telescope heavenwards, a new way of looking at the skies — based on magnetism — could bring into focus significantly more small stars as well as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This article is more than 8 years old. Astronomers now ...

The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a novel ...