Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core, long believed to be stable, may be undergoing structural changes, including a ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

This transformation is believed to be occurring at the boundary where the solid inner core meets the scorching hot liquid ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...