The magnetic shifts can affect navigation systems used by airplanes, ships and even your mobile phone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Researchers at the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Solar Observatory have developed a method to determine the magnetic polarity of active regions on the sun's far side using ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) —a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR—mapped the very first and most detailed map of the long filaments that outline ...

Despite being relatively nearby, very few space probes have visited the solar system's innermost planet. Any spacecraft aiming to study Mercury must accelerate to incredible speeds, and that can take ...

A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from. By ...

For the first time, researchers have mapped the magnetic polarity of active regions on the far side of the sun, which is invisible from Earth. Using helioseismology and data from the NSF-NOAA Global ...