As well as a few temporary reversals, the Earth's magnetic field – just like the Sun – can flip over long timescales. During the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, the magnetic north could have been ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Testing of the samples brought back by Chang'e-5, which were mostly basalt, showed that the moon had a magnetic field of between 2,000 to 4,000 nanoteslas approximately 2 billion years ago, which ...

Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, they'd tell you, are, roughly speaking, as common as ice ages. That is, they're terrifically infrequent by human standards, but in geologic terms they ...

Around 41,000 years ago, the Laschamp event saw a brief but dramatic magnetic field reversal, lasting only ... could destroy low Earth orbit for good 'Moon Mission twist': How space travel could ...

Indeed, the researchers I spoke with all thought that organisms would be able to adjust to an acute weakening or even complete reversal of the magnetic field. "My gut reaction is it's not going to ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 216 No. 2 (February 1967), p. 44 doi:10.1038 ...

While parts of the Earth saw a total lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured stunning imagery of a solar eclipse on Friday. See the rare view here.