Earth's inner core is slowing down; could affect the planet's magnetic field, says new study
By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...
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Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim
Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...
A possible way to generate electricity using Earth's rotational energy
A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S ...
Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
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How Does Earth’s Magnetic Field Work?
If it weren’t for the magnetic field that surrounds our planet, blocking cosmic radiation and solar wind, Earth would likely have little atmosphere to speak of. Life (at least of the human variety) ...
Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
Giant blobs deep inside Earth are 'evolving by themselves'
Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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NASA’s Ezie launching to study magnetic fingerprints of Earth’s aurora
Engineers at JPL had reduced the size of the radio detectors ... EZIE’s observations to those from Earth. “EZIE scientists will be collecting magnetic field data from above, and the students ...