Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many times stronger than our own Jupiter, according to a new study by a team of astrophysicists. It is the first time the ...

Signals from star-planet interactions tell of strong magnetic fields in 'hot Jupiters'. Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many times stronger than our own ...

Zoltan Fodor receives funding from DFG, BMBF. When the results of an experiment don’t match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off. Fifteen years ago, physicists at ...

This illustration shows a hot Jupiter orbiting so close to a red dwarf star that the magnetic fields of both interact, producing activity on the star. Astrophysicists have used that activity to ...