A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Scientists in China claimed that the magnetic shield over North America is weakening rapidly. The geomagnetic field, a kind ...

Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

Is there something strange and alien confined deep inside the Earth? Is it trying to break free and escape into the heavens?

Solar flares are not directly responsible for the aurora borealis. The lights are caused by a phenomenon known as coronal ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

Now, scientists at Columbia University say sudden freezing temperatures may be to blame. The causes of the End Triassic ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

But these models typically neglect an important contribution: how Earth’s magnetic field influences the very flows that generate it.