It's good news for aurora chasers as peak auroral activity occurs a few years after solar maximum, according to Brekke. This ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Scientists have created a quantum spin liquid, a long-sought-after state of matter with potential for quantum computing.

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

The CyBio FeliX, a benchtop instrument for automated liquid handling tasks, was used to automate the HaloPlex Target ...

Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the red planet is a kind of forensic scene for scientists investigating whether Mars was indeed once habitable, ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why.Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere ...

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is proof that you don’t need an ocean to appreciate maritime masterpieces – just a really ...

The Bakken Museum in Minneapolis is where science gets a bit… shocking. Dedicated to the history of electricity and magnetism ...

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...