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Did you know Earth's magnetic field is on the move? Recent studies reveal it's shifting at an astonishing rate—10 times ...
The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...
Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, has always been abundant in Earth's crust, but elemental diatomic ...
The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon now lacks a global magnetic field, its rocks—especially those on the ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
And that’s exactly what happened, at least some of the time. When the young sharks were exposed to the magnetic field of the place they were caught, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, they swam in ...
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...
His team hopes to find out how Earth’s field forms and evolves. “Any theory they’re able to even rule out will be front-page news to many of us,” says Peter Olson, an earth and planetary ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...
Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...