As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets. As Earth’s magnetic field ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting the two factors are linked in some way, researchers say.

Since the Cambrian period (541 million to 485.4 million years ago), the planet's magnetic field and the levels of oxygen have increased in parallel.

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

What Will Happen When the Earth’s Magnetic Field Begins to Reverse? On the University of Maryland campus, a giant whirligig tries to predict the planet’s next big flip Haley Edwards May 2014 ...

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 ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

Cosmic jets are only able to be seen from Earth using the X-ray lens from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the most powerful telescope NASA currently has, which is responsible for searching the furthest ...

New NASA research demonstrates that 540 million years of Earth’s magnetic field changes have corresponded to surface ...

Unraveling the sun's magnetic architecture is key to understanding phenomena like solar flares, eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which drive space weather and can impact Earth.