"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon ...

Repeated impacts can create minerals that lock in magnetic signals long after the Moon’s global field has disappeared.

Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection ...

Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield is unexpectedly lopsided, with its entry point for solar particles pushed off-center. Scientists ...

Quantum diamond magnetometers could enable resilient navigation without GPS, while supporting defense, security, and future ...

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A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...