In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

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A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. The strength of the magnetic ...