Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

It appears that some animals, such as whales and some birds use Earth's magnetic field for migration and direction finding. Since geomagnetic reversal takes a number of thousands of years ...

The earth’s solid iron core is hot enough to demagnetize iron and its alloys. So how does it generate the geomagnetic field? John Campbell, Hood River, Oregon Its core doesn’t. The geomagnetic ...

Multiple Coronal Mass Ejections are heading toward Earth. This has caused the Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a strong geomagnetic storm watch. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is a swath of ...

A geomagnetic storm will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field after a recent burst of energy from the sun’s surface, pulling the northern lights to several states in the northern U.S ...

What a show Earth just put on! Over the past 24 hours ... but after the dramatic geomagnetic activity and vivid aurora displays worldwide, it's now believed they combined into one stronger ...

Every year, Earth Day invites us to consider the environment and climate. That began with the health-related effects of pollution on the very first Earth Day in 1970, and then expanded widely to ...

Tuesday morning, the SWPC said early signs pointed to the CME barreling through space “in the general direction of Earth.” “This raises our measure of confidence in a geomagnetic storm ...