A new lander is on its way to the Moon, and it's managed to catch some breathtaking views during its journey. As it made its way toward lunar orbit last week, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost captured ...

Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

Over 40,000 years ago, Earth's magnetic field pulled a switcheroo, flipping its poles in a dramatic shift known as the ...

A 42,000-year-old tree reveals Earth’s last magnetic pole flip, exposing the planet to deadly radiation. Scientists warn a ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...