A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California say they’ve unraveled the mystery of why Earth’s inner core has been slowing, gradually altering the length of a ...

Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

NASA has announced that a large asteroid, estimated to be larger than a football field, is travelling towards Earth at high speed. Calculations indicate a higher-than-average chance of the asteroid ...

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous. They are generated by the Earth’s core. They are also produced by the electrical activity of the human brain. However, accurately measuring the direction of these ...

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The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind ... Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in ...

A magnetic field is the effect we can see from the movement of charges or the spin of electrons. The fields themselves can be static or changing. A field diagram can be used to show the interactions ...

Charged particles will only experience a force in a magnetic field if they are moving. The direction of the force is both perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field and the direction of the ...

A 500,000-mile coronal hole is blasting solar wind toward Earth Minor geomagnetic storm conditions are expected on Jan. 31 Auroras may intensify in high-latitude regions due to solar activity ...