Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we ...

Aditya-L1's observations reveal unusual dawn-time geomagnetic disturbances during strong solar storms, enhancing our ...

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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 ...

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth's magnetic fields, which ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent ...

Earth’s magnetic field is the vector field generated primarily by dynamo action in the liquid outer core, where convective motion of electrically conducting iron alloys induces and sustains a ...