Generated by a vast dynamo-like churn of molten iron in the Earth’s core, the magnetic field that surrounds the planet ...

Earth’s magnetic field may affect cells in unexpected ways, according to experiments tracking lifespan, movement, and energy use in fruit flies.

Understanding how this magnetic dent behaves gives satellite operators critical lead time to protect delicate instruments. Tracking the anomaly’s movements allows flight controllers to shield ...

Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving rapidly, raising questions about whether the northern lights will shift as well. A new ...

Is it true that "if the core stops, the magnetic field will disappear in one year"? Verifying with the science of Earth's ...

There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very quickly. I’ll play with the music or a dramitic soundup to ramp up the drama.

Cosmic rays let a telescope read thunderstorms from the ground, and Earth's magnetic field explains why it sees far more storms to the east.

Explosive events in the Sun’s outer atmosphere can hurl massive clouds of magnetised gas -- called coronal mass ejections -- ...

(NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally ...

How fast is the universe expanding right now?More than a decade has passed since this simple question yielded two different answers from two different measurement methods, and they still do not match.

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Radio signals emanating from Beta Pictoris b suggest that this young and massive exoplanet has a strong magnetic field and ...