The Unprecedented Speed of Past Reversals A study by geophysicists from UC Berkeley and their Italian and French colleagues ...

Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

Over 40,000 years ago, Earth's magnetic field pulled a switcheroo, flipping its poles in a dramatic shift known as the ...

A 42,000-year-old tree reveals Earth’s last magnetic pole flip, exposing the planet to deadly radiation. Scientists warn a ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

Some of the most sensitive methods of measuring magnetic fields use interactions of resonant light with atomic vapour. Recent developments in this vibrant field have led to improvements in ...

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

With the right preparations and technological solutions in place, aviation would continue to operate safely, even during a ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not sound waves. When converted to audio signals, though, these strange ...

Magnetars are known to have enormous magnetic fields which are hundreds trillions times stronger the Earth magnetic fields. Due to these fields magnetars are bright and variable sources of X-ray ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space weather.