In this short science demo, I show off ferrofluid, a liquid packed with tiny magnetic particles. Using simple magnets, I ...

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An Oxford University preprint posted today to arXiv overturns a foundational assumption in planetary science: that catastrophic collisions in the early solar system ended the magnetic lives of the ...

Did Mars once have a full magnetic field in its ancient past like Earth does today, or was it lopsided and only covered one-half of the planet? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical ...

This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) – featured on the cover of the May 17 issue of the journal Science – was compiled from data ...