From time to time, the Earth's magnetic poles flip, leaving us without a protective magnetic field for up to centuries ...

Earth’s magnetic field does not simply switch direction like a flipped light switch. It weakens, wanders, and reorganizes itself over thousands of years before settling again. For decades, researchers ...

Study findings suggest the history of the terrestrial atmosphere, spanning billions of years, could be preserved in buried lunar soils. (CREDIT: Nature Communications Earth & Environment) Lunar rocks ...

Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s radiation at bay. Increasingly, though, scientists are finding that this ...

Wyoming has landed one of only three super magnets of its kind in the U.S. that will power up advanced research on rare ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of ...

NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...