BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental ...

China has set a new benchmark in extreme magnet science after researchers built the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When the BepiColombo Mercury probe made its closest approach yet to its target earlier this month ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Despite being relatively nearby, very few space probes have visited the solar system's innermost planet. Any spacecraft aiming to study Mercury must accelerate to incredible speeds, and that can take ...

"For the first time, we can actually study in detail the magnetic field fluctuations." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

While using a new computer model to analyze Voyager data, scientists found the Sun’s distant magnetic field is made up of bubbles approximately 100 million miles wide. The bubbles are created when ...

This image shows the NMR probe (the metal cylinder) and a small-scale battery pouch cell (the rectangular device on top of the probe) used in the Argonne study. Argonne develops a novel method that ...