An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior ...

Photograph by Garcia Julien, Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and its iron-nickel core. This teardrop-shaped field shields ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 129, No. 974 (2017 April), pp. 1-5 (5 pages) It is common to attribute a flat rotation curve to our Galaxy. However, in a recent paper, ...

In a new study, Iowa physicists propose that interplanetary magnetic field rotation could help explain why Mars became the ...

These interactions lead to changes in a planet's rotation and temperature, accelerating one and raising the other. Scientists can observe these changes, and the authors have developed a new ...