Therefore, without Earth’s magnetic field, life as we know it would ... deflects most of the solar wind and forms a protective shield is called the magnetosphere. To understand how it works ...

Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are headed back to Earth after nine months on the ISS – but their greatest ...

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 ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

It is likely that Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore would have developed a host of conditions that would make the ...

Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...

But never fear — this shape-shifting won’t directly affect life on Earth. Over time, changes to this innermost layer could impact the planet’s magnetic field, which shields our world from ...

At planetary scale, Earth’s magnetic field induces such a current ... That said, it isn’t a perfect shield. Sometimes the sun emits large bursts of magnetized solar plasma, called coronal mass ...