Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

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Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Did Mars once have a full magnetic field in its ancient past like Earth does today, or was it lopsided and only covered ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously ...

Yan said that the one-sided magnetic field could arise if Mars' inner core was liquid. "The logic here is that with no solid inner core, it's much easier to produce hemispheric (one-sided ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...