There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated an entirely new form of magnetism in a synthesized crystalline material. They're calling it p-wave magnetism. This discovery is ...

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old ...

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...