Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

This combination of events could explain the presence of highly magnetic rocks detected in a region near the south pole, on the moon's far side.

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon ...

591 million years ago, Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Rocks brought back indicate lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, Chinese study in Nature says.

Wage War triumphs with its first No. 1 song on a Billboard chart via “Magnetic,” which lifts to the top of the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey dated Aug. 24.

NEW DELHI: Geologists from MIT and Oxford University have made a significant discovery in Greenland, unearthing ancient rocks that hold clues to Earth's earliest magnetic field. These rocks, well ...

Magnetic fields make life possible on Earth by protecting the planet from the Sun's harmful cosmic rays. A new study found the oldest evidence yet of this field’s existence in iron-rich rocks in ...

Geologists discover 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland with oldest remnants of Earth's early magnetic field.

These rocks offer evidence that Earth had a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago, but scientists aren't sure where that field could've come from.