Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These geomagnetic reversals can take thousands of years, but shorter disruptions ...

One theory suggests superplumes could be leftovers from Theia, the Mars-sized protoplanet that formed the Moon after colliding with Earth. 'James Webb killer is here': NASA’s SPHEREx will scan ...

The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ...

Magnetite, like the name implies, is magnetic. Other magnetic minerals include pyrrhotite and ilmenite. Lodestone is a name given to magnetite that has polarity. Really, all magnetite has polarity ...

Other fields of scientific inquiry, according to Nielsen and Nielsen’s book, included the phenomena around the magnetic north pole and how ... including rare earth metals, which may become ...

Last May, as the strongest solar storm in decades swept through the Earth’s upper atmosphere ... year of frequent and intense auroras across Europe as the Sun’s magnetic poles flip – part of an ...

Like a bar magnet, the Sun also has a magnetic field with north and south poles. The magnetic field exists due to the ... The bursts are significant as they can have an impact on Earth — they can ...