New research reveals that Jupiter’s powerful early magnetic field carved a cavity in its surrounding disk, creating a safe ...

Jupiter and Saturn, these two giant and gaseous planets, are similar in size but present a striking contrast: their moon ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon now lacks a global magnetic field, its rocks—especially those on the far ...

The annual Imperial Athena Lecture celebrates women and their achievements in the field of science, engineering and medicine.

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Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon's mysterious magnetic field, scientists reported Wednesday.

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the Moon’s magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued ...

Twentieth-century explorations answered many questions about our satellite and its place in the solar system. But they also raised many new and challenging questions that still remain unanswered. One ...

Cloudy with a chance of rain? That's not only the forecast on Earth but in some other locations in our Solar System too. Recently, researchers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, have ...