A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

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Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

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 ...

Night owls could see dashes of glowing color in the sky early Tuesday morning with a Geomagnetic Storm Watch in place, signaling the possible arrival of the Northern Lights.

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa may have the potential to disturb Earth’s magnetic field, according to new research.

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the ...