NASA’s New MMS Study Revealed Dance Of The Electrons In Earth’s Magnetosphere

Medicine & Technology May 20, 2017

Every Astrophysical object like Earth has a region of space surrounded by charged particles controlled by its magnetic field, called Magnetosphere. When the incoming charged-particle (Electrons) from solar wind creates disturbance in Earth’s magnetosphere and then it produced Aurora.

Magnetic Field: Geophysicist Dhananjay Ravat Developed High-Resolution Map

Apr 18, 2017

The map not only gives a detailed understanding of the magnetic field but also reveals the polarity flips of Earth in great detail.

Scientists Discovered Source That Speeds Up Magnetic Reconnection

Apr 03, 2017

Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in a common form of reconnection.

Earth's Magnetic Field: Here's Everything To Know

Mar 23, 2017

The earth's magnetic field can be compared to a big coconut, which is protecting us from charged particle and cosmic radiation that bombard planet in the solar wind.

NASA Wants To Wrap Mars With A Giant Magnetic Shield To Make It Habitable For Human [Video]

Mar 06, 2017

At the Planetary Science Vision, 2050 Workshop NASA announced that they would bring life back onMars. At the workshop, scientists proposed that they are planning to establish a giant magnetic shield at L1 Lagrange point beyond Mars.

'Quartz' Crystals At The Core Of Earth Are The Power House Of Magnetic Field

Feb 23, 2017

Scientists from Earth-Life Science Institute(ELSI) has found that Earth's magnetic field gets the power from the Quartz crystals. Lead researcher Kei Hirose and his team created an Earth's core like environment at their lab and found that the crystallization process of Silicon and Oxygen provides the energy for the magnetic field.

Ancient Iron Age Pottery Reveals Evidence Of Earth's Fluctuating Magnetic Field

Feb 15, 2017

An international team of archaeologists found ceramic vessels from Jerusalem. Those jar handles reveal the changes of Earth's magnetic field throughout the centuries

The Place With The Weakest Magnetic Field On Earth

Aug 17, 2015

Experiements in the chamber with the weakest magnetic field on Earth could answer fundamental questions for theoretical physics science.

Getting to the Core of MESSENGER's Research—Mercury Reveals A Liquid Core

May 12, 2015

NASA's Messenger spacecraft orbited Mercury for four years, and in that time it collected a wealth of data and images as it mapped the planet's gravitational field. Now scientists have announced that Mercury's magnetic field is four million years old.

Can Magnetism Bend Heat And Sound? Study Reveals A New Dimension to Magnetic Fields

Mar 23, 2015

For many years researchers have sought to discover just how many uses magnetic fields can have. To date they have become essential in quantum computing, they are vital in medical imaging, and astronomers have even used natural magnetism to amplify the signals of light from far off supernovae and galaxies so that we here on Earth can see them hundreds or thousands of light-years away. But in a new study from researchers at Ohio State University, nanotechnologists have revealed that magnetic fields can impact our lives in far more real ways—controlling heat and sound waves that exhibit magnetic properties of their own.

New NASA Maps Reveal Secrets of Mercury

Mar 18, 2015

The planet closest to the sun has continued to be shrouded in mystery for many years. Now, NASA has unveiled never before seen formations on the surface with two maps created from data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft that has been orbiting the planet since 2004.

Revealing the Swimming Secrets of the Ageless, Brainless Jellyfish

Jan 23, 2015

They may lack brains, bones, and even a heart, but jellyfish are undoubtedly some of the most interesting creatures marine biologists have come to research. Even in spite of their major deficits, and their obvious downfalls, jellyfish have an incredible talent for swimming. So much so that no other creature under the sea can quite compete in terms of efficiency and skills. Though their tactics have long been misunderstood, a new study adds to the working knowledge that these brainless creatures are far more clever than we give them credit for.

Sea Turtles Use Earth’s Magnetic Field as a GPS

Jan 18, 2015

Female sea turtles will swim for thousands of miles to return to their place of birth to lay eggs. For years, how they found their home has remained a mystery to researchers. However, according to a new study, these sea turtles find their way home by relying on the unique magnetic signatures along the coast.

Seals May Use Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate

Dec 31, 2014

While past research has described the specie in great detail, a new study has found that Antarctic seals may be using the Earth's magnetic field as a natural GPS while hunting.

Researchers Reveal Method for Magnetic Field Calculation of Exoplanets

Nov 22, 2014

Knowing the level of a planet’s magnetic field can be an important fact to know in the study of how they interact. But studying the fields of an exoplanet, outside of our solar system and orbiting a foreign star, can be a difficult task that researchers have not yet been able to achieve. Though in nearly two decades of looking past our solar system to investigate exoplanets, researchers have developed several methods to estimate magnetic fields at quite a distance.