There's a new plan could make life on Mars more of a possibility. The plan is built around the idea of giving Mars an artificial magnetosphere. The planet currently lacks a strong magnetic field and ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 7, 2006 -- In a research first that could lead to a new generation of hard drives capable of storing thousands of movies per square inch, physicists at Rice University have decoded the ...

Skyrmions are microscopic magnetic vortices that can form in certain materials. First detected in 2009, they are of interest to research because they could be harnessed for new forms of data storage.

This could explain why some black holes are able to grow to millions or billions of times the mass of our sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

We are in the midst of a new era in space exploration, one in which everyone from NASA to Elon Musk's SpaceX have expressed interest in the idea of sending humans to Mars and even establishing ...

A team of physicists say they have found a new type of quasiparticle which appears to be found in all magnetic materials, hinting that magnetism isn't as static as we thought. First off, what are ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

Merging some esoteric physics principles with an advanced instrument creates a magnetic microscope with resolution better than 100 nm. Analyzing magnetic nanostructures with a high resolution is a ...

While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, a team of astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet’s north and south poles that appear and ...