For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from ...

If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

A growing weak spot in the magnetic field surrounding the Earth could lead to satellite malfunction and even cause them to ...

Quantum oscillations are typically found in metals, but finding this same “electron wiggle” within the bulk of insulators is ...

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" for an ancient marine creature that used Earth's magnetic field to navigate ...

Quantum devices that measure Earth's magnetic fields could help replace GPS—if researchers can figure out how to tell when ...