This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space is full of radiation. So much radiation, in fact, that the only thing standing ...

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87.

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

Eventually, the blob of molten material beneath Canada split in two and the stronger one slowly shifted toward the blob ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made during that cataclysmic event. Using data from the European Space ...

Recently, I came across a piece of news stating that scientists have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field is declining, ...

For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just a compass: It may also sculpt their brains. Stepping outside their nest for the first time, young ants need to learn how to forage. The ants train ...

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...