It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, however, the physical mechanisms underpinning the generation of these fields ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has the detailed structure of this invisible force come into focus. A new study ...