Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. Not least ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

A major scientific breakthrough has settled a decades-old debate about the moon’s interior. Researchers have confirmed that ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Earth's mysterious core is yet again generating headlines as scientists learn more about what lies way beneath our feet. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth’s surface, the inner core is anchored ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Researcher have created a new magnetic state dubbed the "vortion" that could dramatically reduce energy consumption in ...

Sumitomo Electric has expanded its lineup of powder magnetic cores for motors and has added new material data to the ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet that sits some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) below the surface.

A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with the strongest magnetic fields in the ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over just a few decades ...