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

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 ...

The Northern Lights could be seen in some parts of Scotland tonight in what is exciting news for astronomy lovers. The Met ...

The Met Office says the Northern Lights may light up skies over Scotland on Sunday, March 23, with a 'geomagnetic storm watch ...

The above image, provided by the Met Office shows northern parts of the UK under a red colour. The colour indicates a chance ...

Many planets and moons, and all stars, generate magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic field, for example, is created by the movement of molten iron and nickel in the planet’s core and helps to ...

Space weather describes changing environmental conditions in near-Earth space. Magnetic fields ... This is due to the Earth’s orbit crossing the plane of the rings, a rare event that occurs ...

Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken Earth’s magnetic field. If that happens, the author of the paper argues that we could see atmospheric ...

Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends ... Voyager 1 is traveling up away from the plane that includes ...