Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts about 97.7 degrees relative to its orbit, so the planet spends long stretches ...
A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant ...
Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and CSIRO have just observed bizarre, never-seen-before behaviour from a ‘radio-loud’ magnetar–a rare type of ...
How does a black hole generate a magnetic field and how can it be measured and visualized? Alan CroftSeattle, Washington As black holes feed, they pull material into a disk around them. The material ...