Magnetism is a force we can’t see. Something is magnetic if it can pull another magnetic object towards it. Just like these fridge magnets. A magnet attracts or repels things made from certain ...

With the help of a powerful rare-earth alloy, magnet fishers pull garbage out of polluted waterways ...

It seems that the solar cycle of magnetic activity is meddling with their efforts. Of course, we can verify the sun's true ...

But some metals are magnetic and some are not. The most common magnetic metal is iron. You don't see too many objects made of pure iron but you do see lots of different things made of steel, which has ...

The sun, and the intense magnetic activity it generates that causes the northern lights, waxes and wanes on an 11-year-long solar cycle that is at its maximum. Because NASA anticipates the solar ...

Interactions between Earth and the sun's magnetic fields cause "space weather" which can cause problems with our electrical infrastructure. The University of Iowa is leading the NASA mission ...