"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: When samples of lunar dust touched down with returning ...

Our magnetosphere plays the role of gatekeeper, repelling unwanted energy that's harmful to life on Earth, trapping most of it a safe distance from Earth's surface in twin doughnut-shaped zones called ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Due to the movement of iron and nickel in our planet’s ...

New research suggests giant structures beneath Earth's mantle significantly influence the planet's magnetic field over long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

Geophysicists from ETH Zurich and SUSTech, China, have demonstrated the dynamo effect of the Earth’s core in a model in which viscosity has no influence, as is the correct physical regime for the ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the ...

SMILE is designed to get answers to what happens when a stream of solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic shield and the ...

If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

For all we’ve learned about places far away in outer space, we may have barely scratched the surface of the places lying deep within Earth. As a result, there’s a lot of information we seem to be ...