The Magnetic Shield That Protects Our Climate Earth is surrounded by an immense magnetic field, called the magnetosphere.

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

Scientists have discovered microscopic magnetic fossils, potentially revealing how ancient marine life navigated vast oceans using Earth's magnetic field.

Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Small in-plane magnetic fields switch skyrmion chirality and improve lattice order in a two-dimensional magnet, pointing to ...

Every so often—every 250,000 years on average—the Earth's magnetic poles reverse polarity. If such a reversal happened today, compass needles would point south rather than north. Here, view a computer ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...