In-plane magnetic fields are responsible for inducing anomalous Hall effect in certain films, report researchers. By studying how these fields change electronic structures, the team discovered a large ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding ...

Voyager 2 data from Uranus and Neptune revealed their magnetic fields are non-dipolar and disordered, a stark contrast to the dipolar fields observed on Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Astronomer Burkhard ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the ...

They have missing "dipole magnetic fields." Here's why that's really weird. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA's Voyager 2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 28, 2025, 07:59am EST Map of the strength of the Earth's ...

The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed. When you ...

In physics, we have a bunch of constants that are used in models to explain how the world works. These are fixed numbers that we plug into equations along with our variables. For example, the ...