You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever ...

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

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth's land and oceans, using our planet's global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth - into ...

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 ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

The magnetic north pole is not in the same location as the geographic north pole, which is located 1,300 miles away.

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 ...

One hundred ‘special’ hair cells are needed to perceive Earth’s magnetic field- proving ... the magnetosome in the geomagnetic field suggests that a compass magnetoreceptor can be realized ...

The moving metals in Earth's core create the planet's magnetic field. Our planet sits in a small corner of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives ...

Chinook salmon start their lives high upstream in the rivers of western North America. The young fish linger in the safety of ...