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

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

In theory, as Earth spins through its magnetic field, any conductive material placed on its surface should experience a force ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

The effect known as 'Russell-McPherron' is down to the alignment of the Sun and Earth around the spring and autumn equinox and means that you are twice as likely to see the aurora in spring and autumn ...

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 ...

High above Earth's poles ... to observe the Zeeman effect and measure the strength and direction of the electrojets' magnetic fields. Built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

This, in turn, affects convection in the outer core—the dynamo-like process that generates the magnetic field that protects life on Earth from harmful cosmic rays. "Flow in the outer core drives ...