See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The ...

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet. New ...

Using the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter installed on the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (Mauna Kea, Hawaii), an international team of researchers, led by two French astronomers (C. Catala, LESIA, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn has a lopsided magnetic field, far different from the mostly even magnetosphere of Earth, new research suggests. The ringed ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t pose a threat to life Earth’s magnetic field surrounds the planet, with ...

Planet Earth is surrounded by a system of magnetic fields known as the magnetosphere. This vast, comet-shaped system deflects charged particles coming from the sun, shielding our planet from harmful ...

San Antonio — Oct. 23, 2007 — Space physicists have long assumed that the magnetosphere at Jupiter circulates that planet’s magnetic field in the same way as Earth. At Earth, this circulation drives ...

The magnetic fields that surround some planets, such as Earth, have been recreated in miniature in the lab. The 3D model may give us a better idea of how space weather affects satellites. Any ...

Mars wasn't always frozen and barren. Billions of years ago it had flowing rivers, standing lakes, and possibly oceans. It lost all of it because of something happening deep inside the planet: its ...

Scientists report a method to study smaller magnetospheres, sometimes just millimeters thick, in the laboratory. The new experimental platform combines the magnetic field of the Large Plasma Device ...