The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

The weak spot has been known about for over half a century, but it's now getting bigger.

A new study may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 550-million-year-old rocks.

Recent satellite observations have unveiled a rapidly expanding weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field. This massive anomaly, ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Generated by a vast subterranean sea of molten iron acting like a dynamo in the Earth's outer core, the magnetic field that surrounds the planet protects its surface and everything on it from solar ...

At the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in New Mexico a pulsed magnet has achieved fields of around 100 tesla, making ...

Satellite data has revealed a growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – and it’s been expanding ...

This is the second article in a four-part series. The first article, “America’s Quantum Moment,” was published on Oct. 13, ...