Earth's magnetosphere is a guiding beacon for a variety of species capable of sensing its presence. Physicists have now ...

Several years ago researchers showed that magnetite crystals contained within the Martian meteorite ALH84001 exhibited characteristics similar to crystals synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria on ...

“Several theory groups have speculated that analogues of these structures could emerge in quantized anomalous Hall systems, ...

The researchers observed layers with abundant fine-grained magnetite crystals, which they say probably formed in an iron-rich environment because these layers also had high levels of iron overall.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...