Earth’s magnetic field, generated deep within the planet’s liquid iron core, has been bending, stretching, and occasionally flipping for billions of years. That invisible shield determines whether ...

Explore the hidden dynamics of Earth’s magnetosphere, a constantly spinning, living shield generated by the molten iron core beneath our feet. Learn how it has weakened by 30% over the last 3,000 ...

"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: It used to be thought that there were more volatiles ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new NASA mission is set to launch that will study the effects of Earth’s magnetic field on us. NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the TRACERS mission from California later this month ...

In A Nutshell Two massive hot regions deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean have been influencing Earth’s protective ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Earth’s magnetosphere protects life from deadly space radiation, but many aspects of its function remain a mystery. Scientists have long believed ...

An international team from Kanazawa University (Japan), Tohoku University (Japan), LPP (France), and partners has demonstrated that chorus emissions, natural electromagnetic waves long studied in ...

When last year's solar superstorm "Gannon" slammed into Earth, it not only painted the sky with beautiful auroras, but also shrunk one of the planet's protective layers to just one-fifth its usual ...

It's kind of scary to think that all life on Earth is just a flimsy and invisible magnetic field away from total annihilation. It is this thing that keeps solar particles at bay, preventing our planet ...

Right: Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Mio of the BepiColombo mission; Left: Earth’s GEOTAIL satellite. The illustration highlights comparative studies of planetary magnetospheres. An international ...