A space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests and could someday propel spacecraft using ...

A surprising reversal in molten iron flow beneath the Pacific is giving scientists a sharper view of how Earth’s magnetic ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...

New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field.

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as "hot Jupiters." ...

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Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and yet it carries its own ...

Schematic of the Earth’s magnetic field (upper left), history of geomagnetic reversals inferred from the remanent magnetization of ocean-floor rocks (lower left; compiled from data in Ogg, Geologic ...