Astronomers have smashed the record for the largest-known cloud of energetic particles discovered surrounding a galactic ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluste - spanning nearly 20 ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse. Over the course of our planet’s history, the field has flipped ...

European astronomers have investigated a galaxy cluster designated CIZA J2242.8+5301, dubbed the Sausage cluster. The ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly ...

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted ...

⊥ Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China Department of ...

A swirling stream of hot gas in a galaxy cluster may solve the mystery of why these cosmic giants don’t cool down. Thanks to XRISM, scientists now see that this “sloshing” motion may be stirring heat ...

The images map out properties such as fractal density and magnetic field lines. The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory view of galaxy group NGC 4839 has revealed that it is "plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an extraordinary tail of superheated gas," according ...

Around 591 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period, Earth’s magnetic field weakened dramatically, nearly collapsing. This event coincided with a surge in atmospheric oxygen and the emergence of ...