The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed.

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun, has vivid blue clouds and fierce windstorms, but also a badly behaved magnetic field.The field is 27 times more powerful than Earth's and sits at an angle ...

Planet Earth 150,000-year history of Earth's magnetic field reveals clues about the climate when early humans were spreading out of Africa Venus Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, NASA ...

Earth's magnetic field, which protects it from solar radiation, has a weak spot that's expanding.; This weak spot may be caused by pieces of an ancient planet that hit Earth and sank into the ...

Earth's suit of geomagnetic armor has a chink, and it's growing. This weak spot in our planet's magnetic field is located above the southern Atlantic Ocean, between South America and southern ...

The sun-studying Solar Orbiter spacecraft will swing by Venus on Saturday (Sept. 3) and gather bonus observations of our neighbor planet's mysterious magnetic field.

Planets need a magnetic field such as the one surrounding Earth if they are to be habitable, researchers say. Credit: NASA. ANTIOQUIA, Colombia, April 17 (UPI) ...

Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system. Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield against energetic particles from the ...

Once upon a time, Mars had a magnetic field, just like Earth. Four billion years ago, it vanished, taking with it the planet’s chances of evolving life as we know it. Now scientists have ...

Jupiter was about twice its current radius and possessed a magnetic field roughly 50 times stronger than today around 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids formed.

Magnetic fields could play similar roles on other planets. An international team of astronomers used data from the Hubble Space Telescope to discover the signature of a magnetic field in a planet ...