There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very ...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

We usually think of auroras as beautiful lights in the night sky. I see them as visible traces of a connection between the ...

The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities ...

Extreme geomagnetic storms could impact Earth twice as strongly as thought after researchers found a statistical bias may ...

A recent study has revealed an unexpected shift that happened beneath the Pacific Ocean in 2010. Using decades of satellite and ground-based magnetic field data, researchers tracked a dramatic shift ...

The tests revealed traces of an ancient magnetic field preserved inside the grains. From those signals, the researchers ...

Dogs may be doing more than simply choosing a spot when they stop for a break. A 2013 study by Czech researchers found that ...

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 ...