Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever ...

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth's land and oceans, using our planet's global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth - into ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

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 ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

The magnetic north pole is not in the same location as the geographic north pole, which is located 1,300 miles away.

The Schuler period was important for the invention of the gyrocompass: Even Albert Einstein was involved in the development ...

One hundred ‘special’ hair cells are needed to perceive Earth’s magnetic field- proving ... the magnetosome in the geomagnetic field suggests that a compass magnetoreceptor can be realized ...

The moving metals in Earth's core create the planet's magnetic field. Our planet sits in a small corner of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives ...

Scientists have discovered a monumental 'weak spot' in our planet's magnetic field is growing, which could have huge consequences for us on Earth. Space is constantly changing, with NASA focusing many ...