"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic fields protect planets from energetic particles that can strip away atmospheres ...

In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts ...

Scientists discovered a new Hall effect driven by spin currents in noncollinear antiferromagnets, offering a path to more ...

But that looks soon to change, thanks to the recent discovery of altermagnets. Now scientists are putting forth ideas for efficient switches to manage magnetism in devices. Magnetism has ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising magnetic spin phase where order and disorder mix, challenging old ideas.

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the number ...

"It was a completely serendipitous discovery." Fedriani and his colleagues suspect these newly detected filaments are ...

Physicists have discovered that electronic excitations in 2D magnets can interact through spin waves – ripples in a ...

Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. The phase is a ...

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding ...

Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.