S cientists have found that it’s possible to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field ...

Many northern lights watchers over the years will tell you: Patience is key to catching a glimpse of this wonder of Mother Nature. And Tuesday night’s show didn’t disappoint those New ...

Every second, phenomena known as "auroral electrojets" that stem from solar activity push about a million amps of electrical charge around Earth ... magnetic field is stronger, this emission line ...

Their discovery, compared to the swift movements of a well-known cartoon predator ... and affect the power grid on Earth.” The “slip-running” reconnections of the sun’s magnetic field lines – the term ...

Electric and magnetic fields are important ... understood to be harmful to Earth’s atmosphere. These effects, along with the process of ionizing the air, use energy and that energy comes from the ...

The magnetic microstructure of the nickel-iron alloy leads to a compression of the field lines in the centre. (Image: A. Palau/ICMAB) Dr Anna Palau from the Institut de Ciencia de Materials de ...

We all know that the Earth is in constant motion - it is something we learnt in school, and while we might not feel it at all, our planet is constantly moving, completing one rotation around the ...

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 ...

The star also has strong, dynamic magnetic fields crisscrossing its surface ... amount of energy and sometimes rush towards the earth at tremendous speed in an event called a coronal mass ejection.

These shock waves are born in plasma — a gas of charged particles that can conduct electricity and interact with magnetic fields ... stream smashes into the earth’s atmosphere, it breaks ...