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 ...

A massive wave of solar plasma is racing toward Earth — and it’s about to collide with our only real defense: the magnetosphere. But this shield isn’t as stable as most people think. Under the right ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a stable magnetic field.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant Colorful Anomaly ABove Earth NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower ...

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, however, is protected by its magnetic field, which creates a protective ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects of viscosity in their simulation, they revealed a self-sustaining dynamo ...

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 ...