Earth's magnetic field lines travel in continuous closed loops. (Image credit: VectorMine via Getty Images) And just to make things that little more confusing, what we call the North Magnetic Pole ...

Stock image of solar wind hitting the Earth's magnetic field. Due to the alignment of our magnetic field towards the sun at the equinoxes, more solar wind slips through, resulting in more auroras.

The Unprecedented Speed of Past Reversals A study by geophysicists from UC Berkeley and their Italian and French colleagues has shed new light on Earth's last major magnetic reversal. Occurring ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...

The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life as we know it. But it’s something we can never see – or hear, until now. In a recent study released on Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency, ...

To get a global view of Earth’s magnetosphere, NASA’s Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is set for a trip to the moon. Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after ...

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

Further, physicists like Cohen say that the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t going to flip overnight. This is something that reverses on a time scale between 100,000 and 1,000,000 years.

But recent research suggests they may also use the Earth’s magnetic field as a backup system. When visual or echo cues are unavailable, bats can still orient themselves and find their way ...

Earth’s magnetic field is formed by the movement of the liquid metal, ... A satellite image of the Earth is centered on the North Pole. Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

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