Somewhere between us and the Sagittarius Arm, the Milky Way’s magnetic field quietly switches direction. A team of radio ...

Deep beneath the Pacific near the equator, Earth’s outer core now flows east instead of west. Dynamics deeper within our planet’s core may help explain the change and what to expect in the near future ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. What causes this switch in polarity, and is it ...

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

The Milky Way’s magnetic field, the invisible scaffold that steers cosmic rays and shapes the gas between stars, has been ...

Scientists may have discovered something we previously thought impossible. Magnetic reversals aren't an uncommon thing when it comes to cosmic entities. Our Sun undergoes a reversal of its magnetic ...

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 ...

Earth’s magnetic field seems steady and true — reliable enough to navigate by. Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening ...

The world experienced a few centuries of apocalyptic conditions 42,000 years ago, triggered by a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles combined with changes in the Sun’s behavior. That’s the key ...

A new analysis of computer simulations of Earth’s magnetic field suggests that its behavior was different early in Earth’s history, resulting in greater stability and fewer reversals of the magnetic ...