Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

Welcome to the new series from the Jewish Children's Museum in conjunction with COLlive: “History’s Heroes,” where we learn about our favorite Jewish Heroes and craft, paint, or experiment, along the ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

Scientists have unlocked a previously unseen behavior of acoustic waves, opening up new possibilities for cutting-edge ...

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. The strength of the magnetic ...