The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

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

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods ...

New research suggests a magnetic pole reversal 41k years ago caused harmful radiation. Homo sapiens adapted with clothing and ochre, while Neanderthals didn't.

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

While life on Earth has weathered multiple magnetic reversals over more than 100 million years, “we’ve never experienced a reversal when modern technology was present,” Brown said.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

The weakening of the magnetic field, though, does not always lead to pole reversals, which take thousands of years to come into effect. The South Atlantic Anomaly may even disappear over time, as one ...

The last true sustained reversal of the magnetic poles happened around 780,000 years ago, and is named the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal after the geophysicists who first found evidence for it.

The phenomenon "may be linked to the Earth's history of magnetic pole reversals, which have occurred nearly 200 times over the past 100 million years," said Earth.com. Understanding pole shifting ...