These fronds and fans include Earth’s earliest known animals, such as the blob-like Dickinsonia. Scientists theorize that without the protection of the magnetic field roughly 600 million years ...

Back in 1832, the celebrated British physicist, Michael Faraday, carried out a set of experiments designed to answer a tantalizing question: could electricity be generated by Earth's rotation through ...

Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current within the wire. This is the basic principle that allows electric motors and generators to operate. In the Earth (see ...

According to NASA, “without this protection, Earth’s biosphere ... the other directions can be figured out. Without the Earth’s magnetic field, this useful phenomenon would not occur.

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 ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the ...

NASA finally got two astronauts back to Earth after being stranded on the ISS for 9 months. Such long space missions can take ...

As this material is often conductive, it will likely affect the Earth’s magnetic field, as argued by [Sierra Solter-Hunt] in a pre-publication article. Although the speculation by [Sierra] can ...

While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it was before, raising questions about the planet's magnetic field. If the Earth's field is disrupted ...