An international team, including UNIGE, has reproduced for the first time the formation and evolution of a magnetar.

Approximately every 11 years, the sun’s magnetic poles swap places, and the 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star becomes ...

and these stars gain tremendously powerful magnetic fields when matter ejected from during their explosive supernova deaths falls back toward them. Scientists say the discovery of this dynamo-like ...

Hubble captures a stunning view of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), famous for its brilliant central core and wide, dark dust lanes. Seen edge-on from Earth, its unique shape looks like a Mexican hat, ...