Understanding how this magnetic dent behaves gives satellite operators critical lead time to protect delicate instruments.

Explosive events in the Sun’s outer atmosphere can hurl massive clouds of magnetised gas -- called coronal mass ejections -- ...

Researchers combined gravity data from NASA’s GRAIL mission with magnetic measurements from Lunar Prospector and Kaguya. In ...

The European Space Agency–led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a "switchback" in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped a little more than 40,000 years ago. We can now experience this upheaval as an ...

Unlike Earth, the moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global magnetic field. This so-called geodynamo works on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 28, 2025, 07:59am EST Map of the strength of the Earth's ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 11 years of satellite data reveal that Earth's magnetic field is reshaping. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) More than a decade of ...

Scientists have developed a way to produce models of where the magnetic field lines are several times each day. Here we have created a time-lapse version of these models over four days (2-3 each day) ...

Migratory birds fly thousands of kilometers without maps or smartphones and return to almost the same place every year, right ...