In October 1989, a blast from the sun flung out a stream of super-powered protons. This solar storm lasted for days and ...

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Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

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Earth’s magnetic north pole has a new official position. The updated World Magnetic Model 2025, released by the National ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and ...

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During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield is unexpectedly lopsided, with its entry point for solar particles pushed off-center. Scientists ...

The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials.